Art Quotes - Page 426

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists

Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

love is dangerous for your tiny heart even in your dreams so please dream softly

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

Those who desire only techniques will never understand this art. It is everything beyond that

In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust - ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out, which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.

If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

We should examine ourselves and learn what is the affection and purpose of the heart, for in this way only can we learn what we honestly are.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

Whatever situation you're in: Send love, place it in God's hands, open your heart to everyone involved - and it will turn out miraculously.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or ‘dematerialized’

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.