Art Quotes - Page 358

Most of my subject matter was all kind of, like, party stuff, jewelry and cars. It was really just, you know, shallow.

In school, I learned about artists and how they were free to express themselves. I was allergic to conformity, and the lifestyle attracted me. I wanted to express myself in a way that slammed people up against the wall.

There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party … and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

All the BEAUTY in the earth bears the FINGERPRINT of the master creator” Gordon B. Hinckley

The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

If a work of art is to be truly immortal, it must pass quite beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense and logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child.

As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

We must not always try to plumb the depths of the human heart; the truths it contains are among those that are best seen in half-light or in perspective.

Art must be unaesthetic in the extreme, useless and impossible to justify.

Appalling numbers of youth have been led into a cynical ultra-sophisticated attitude which regards drinking as a badge of social aptitude, which makes a fetish of sport and professes eroticism as a way of life. A perverted and insane pictorial art, lewd exhibitionistic dancing and jungle music form the spiritual norm of this sector of America's youth.

Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself

Mysticism is the art of union with Reality.

The political trend is always to be observed, partly as a spectacle, partly for one's own safety. The liberal is dissatisfied with regime; the anarch passes through their sequence - as inoffensively as possible - like a suite of rooms. This is the recipe for anyone who cares more about the substance of the world than its shadow - the philosopher, the artist, the believer.

Electronics were rascals, and they lay awake nights trying to find some way to screw you during the day. You could not reason with them. They had a brain and intestines, but no heart.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.