Art Quotes - Page 351

Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity & imagination.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

The two party system just means that the corporations cut two checks instead of one.

An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pouring it all out at the audience. Any excitement over a subject must be sublimated into an Olympian calm of form. That is the only way in which an artist can tell of the things that excite him.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.

Tawbah is the cleaning of the heart, dhikr is the feeding of the heart.

The real power of Jazz is that a group of people can come together and create improvised art and negotiate their agendas... and that negotiation is the art