Art Quotes - Page 480

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

If you're smart, you abandon the things that didn't work out so well, and you enlarge upon the things that seem to be successful.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

Happiness is the art of learning how to get joy from your substance.

I'm not a pop artist. For me pop never was.... Pop is concerned with exteriors. I'm concerned with interiors. When I use objects, I see them as a vocabulary of feelings. I can spend a lot of time with objects, and they leave me as satisfied as a good meal. I don't think pop artists feel that way.

Have you ever felt despair? Absolute hopelessness? Have you ever stood in the darkness and known, deep in your heart, in your spirit, that it was never, ever going to get better? That something had been lost, forever, and that it wasn't coming back?

Jackie Chan is a very good comedy/martial arts star. He does one kind of martial arts that Jet Li doesn't know how to do and Jet Li does a martial art that Jackie Chan doesn't know how to do. You can both go to two Chinese restaurants, but both can have different kinds of food.

If there is not at least a yearning in our hearts to live a holy life pleasing to God, we need to seriously question whether our faith in Christ is genuine.

Bitterness arises in our hearts when we do not trust in the sovereign rule of God in our lives

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

Article 50 governs the exit from the European Union and here there can also be no renegotiation.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

Art doesn't go to sleep in the bed made for it. It would sooner run away than say its own name: what it likes is to be incognito. Its best moments are when it forgets what its own name is.

I took no money to make art, but my woman backed me up on it and I want my children to see their father happy.

By definition, gay is smart. I see plenty of macho heterosexual idiots, but nine times out of 10 you can have a great conversation if you find a gay guy.

An economy where advertisers thrive while journalists and artists struggle, reflects the values of a society more interested in deception and manipulation than in truth and beauty

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression.

maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.