Art Quotes - Page 379

You will, if you're wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.

Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.

If the world kept a journal, many of the entries would be conversations concerning the advancement of scientific knowledge and its importance to humanity. I offer the following conversation as an added entry: "And what is as important as knowledge?" asked the mind. "Caring," answered the heart.

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

Although there are many plans in a loving heart,but only God’s will is sufficiently established.

Design is art that people use.

I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart

It takes a long time to make a painter - even with a good artist's education - but without one it tries the patience of Job; it is a great thing if one does not go backward.

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.

Love has no thought of self! Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold The loathsome prostitution of a hand Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things To bless the thing it loves!

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

You can never plan the future by the past.

The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name

I don't mind most religious people, I talk to them. I listen to them, you know, banging on. "I prayed very hard and then the fairy came." "Did he? Good. Have a biscuit." I only get annoyed when they try and make me see the fairy. "You have to let the fairy into your heart." Look, I wouldn't let him into my garden, okay? I'd shoot him on sight, if he existed, which he doesn't. Now have another biccie and be quiet, will you please?

May we grow in strength — without pride in self. May we, in our dealings with all peoples of the earth, ever speak truth and serve justice. And so shall America — in the sight of all men of good will — prove true to the honorable purposes that bind and rule us as a people in all this time of trial through which we pass.

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.

Political events are part of everyday life [in Colombia], so art and politics came to me as a natural thing, something that has been very much present in my life from the start.

Use each moment to make another's eyes sparkle and to warm a heart.

The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.

Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.

... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.