Art Quotes - Page 469

For always roaming with a hungry heart.

Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths; Love laps his wings on either side the heart Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts, So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

Be kind. Aim for my heart.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

I still remain convinced that truth, love, peaceableness, meekness, and kindness are the violence which can master all other violence. The world will be theirs as soon as ever a sufficient number of people with purity of heart, with strength, and with perseverance think and live out the thoughts of love and truth, of meekness and peaceableness.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?' I would have say, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Here is the truth: The Earth is round; Saddam Hussein did not attack us on 9/11; Elvis is dead; Obama was born in the United States; and the climate crisis is real.

Martial art has always been my first love.

The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.

There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

Art should live in the heart of the people. Ordinary people should have the same ability to understand art as anybody else. I don't think art is elite or mysterious.

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little ideas that creep up in your mind, often contain the germ of a much larger project. All great art wasn't born as great art. It first needed to be recognized by the artist him/herself. Through his or her belief in it, it became true.

God has guarded His Word so that only the pure in heart can see its secrets. All other efforts will fail.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?