Art Quotes - Page 378

I had to run away from home in order to be a musician. Because I came from a family of... my father was a health inspector; my mother was a social worker. And I was pretty smart in school. So they expected me to be some kind of academic - schoolteacher, or doctor, lawyer - and they were very disappointed when I told them I wanted to be a musician.

One advantage of the discovery of the Photographic Art will be, that it will enable us to introduce into our pictures a multitude of minute details which add to the truth and reality of the representation, but which no artist would take the trouble to faithfully copy from nature.

The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

Make a game out of practice, you're still a child at heart

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

I honestly don't know how you live without having a cat inside your house. It's like having a little living piece of art that is also very warm and soft.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.

I like the idea of my art being a covetable object; I like preciousness. A lot of art seems to flaunt its throw-away character... But you have to sail out into the dangerous sea of fine art with these crafted works.

It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.

Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things; it is absurd and stupid

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

I'd say probably the most epic experience was before the Victoria's Secret show - I think it was before the casting - and I saw Naomi Campbell at a party. I was saying that I was nervous about my walk and she said "Come to my hotel tomorrow and we're going to practice." So I went in New York and we practiced in the hallway of her hotel with all of the hotel staff watching. She just said "Don't even flinch. Keep going!" It was hilarious, but I think that was kind of a confidence booster.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

As long as we have deaf people on earth, we will have signs.

Caricature is rough truth.

The heart is a temple wherein all truth resides.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

You can easily tell when someone has been hit by a spear. he turns a deep shade of bitter. David never got hit. Gradually, he learned a very well-kept secret... One, never learn anything about the fashionable, easily mastered art of spear throwing. Two, stay out of the company of all spear throwers. And three, keep your mouth tightly closed. In this way, spears will never touch you, even when they pierce your heart.

Every act of kindness is potent and lingers long in the heart of the recipient.

Only the heart knows how to find what is precious.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.