Art Quotes - Page 414

Art postulates communion, and the artist has an imperative need to make others share the joy which he experiences himself.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

I'm a dyed-in-the-wool party man. I don't know just what party I am in right now, but I am for the party.

Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There is only one way to do it and that is to feel it. You can fool the eyes and minds of the audience, but you cannot fool their hearts.

Conclusions which are merely verbal cannot bear fruit, only those do which are based on demonstrated fact. For affirmation and talk are deceptive and treacherous. Wherefore one must hold fast to facts in generalizations also, and occupy oneself with facts persistently, if one is to acquire that ready and infallible habit which we call "the art of medicine".

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

It is the photo that takes you. One must not take photos.

Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

When someone loves you it's like having a blanket all round your heart.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests. This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people.

While guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. We were seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of the age, and find a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell.

Whoever doesn't live in poetry cannot survive here on earth.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.

The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.

Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.