Art Quotes - Page 461

Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.

With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

The Swamp of Despond is that place set before the narrow gate where true and false pilgrims alike are assaulted by their own internal corruption and pollution. The dirt and scum that has attached itself to our hearts and minds is agitated and revealed by both the workings of a guilty conscience and the devouring avarice of the enemy of our souls.The

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

Before God, I believe the hour has come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it. And I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment. Independence now, and Independence for ever!

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

You didn't just show up on planet Earth by accident.. You were handpicked by Almighty God.

I came from Canada when I was about 10 years old, and our family settled in Cleveland, Ohio.

But I have had to give up certain things in my life. One is shopping. Two is lunch with the girls. Three is cocktail parties, and four is studying my lines.

I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.

My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

Art must make you laugh a little and make you a little afraid. Anything as long as it doesn't bore.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The men in my life were wonderful, but they were very artistic and very creative and they were adventurers like myself. So it wasn't right to settle down with them.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

Artists are here to disturb the peace.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.