Art Quotes - Page 409

The discussion about whether photography is or isn't art is dated and of no interest. Your work makes you an artist, not your title.

I was much more interested in literature than I was in art. I just got into art by mistake.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And if I don't know any more all that I've lived through It's because I haven't always been seen by you.

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart.

I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Sex and art are the same thing.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what I was going to be like, but she loved me because she carried me in her womb.

Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear.

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life.

The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities, and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a muse, but then I weren't much of a poet

A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank. And, on the contrary, it is seen that when princes have thought more of ease than of arms they have lost their states. And the first cause of your losing it is to neglect this art; and what enables you to acquire a state is to be master of the art.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

Never put anyone out of your heart.

To find beauty in everyone you must see beauty in everyone, then announce that you see it, for in announcing it, you place it there in their reality. Make it your life's mission today to bring to the attention of another just how extraordinary they are. Say it. Say it. SAY it. Their heart is waiting to know that their own best thought about themselves can be believed.