Art Quotes - Page 486

What vice could be worse than covetousness? What is more sinful than slander? For one who is truthful, what need is there for austerity? For one who has a clean heart, what is the need for pilgrimage?.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe’s history.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to discover to you.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.

Take your eyes and your ears and your hands and your feet and your thoughts and your heart: Give them completely to Christ

Christ alone can bring lasting peace - peace with God - peace among men and nations - and peace within our hearts.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any work of art.

In Europe, Socialism is just another political party. It just means that government takes over certain things like hospitals, prisons, military and schools that should not be run for profit.

There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

A clever mind is not a heart. Knowledge doesn't really care, wisdom does.

State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

Learning is as much an art as teaching