Art Quotes - Page 418

Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

Art is an intersection of many human needs.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try to know them without my mind pressing against theirs, or arguing or changing the subject. No. My attitude is: "Tell me more. This person is showing me his soul. It is a little dry and meager and full of grinding talk just now, but presently he will begin to think, not just automatically to talk. He will show his true self. Then he will be wonderfully alive."

Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

On our knees we are the most powerful force on earth

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is.

(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.

Those who die for their country are martyrs and those who live for their country are greater martyrs.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

Wherever...thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

The women used the music to get their men to relate to them better: "talk to me, tell me what's on your mind." Men used the music to get the girls in the mood to make love. So either way you had it, Barry White is the one artist who actually was in your bedroom with you at your most sacred, sensuous moment of your life.

I think pictures and words have the power to make us rich or poor.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

If someone asked me if I could have anything in the world, what would l want? If l could own anything, like owning a piece of art, l think it would be Elton John's publishing, on his first seven albums. I don't want the money. Being able to own those songs Is like owning a painting of someone you admire.

Just because I accept you as you are does not mean that I have given up all hope of your improvement.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore the principles of the power of perception and the souls ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart.

All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings; there’s too much corruption in the world

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.