Art Quotes - Page 489

"Art is the ability to turn one's gaze to the world of oblivion." This is the way in which I understand art at fundamental level.

It is true that we are under occupation, but we are not the weaker party. We are the military force which Israel failed to defeat.

Allah does not withhold to withhold. Remaking the heart was the objective. To remake it, He sometimes breaks it first.

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.

Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.

If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.

His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth.

Every so often we hear people clamor for a change. Let's change the Constitution, change the form of Government, change everything for better or worse except to change the only thing that needs changing first: The human heart and our standard of success and human values.

When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geniuses.

We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. . .

All great art is a visual form of prayer.

To me, the message of my songs, of all songs, is "enjoy life." My message as a person who evidently doens't have much more planned is the same. It's the only message I ever thought art had any business having.

Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.

The surface of the Earth itself is an immense loom upon which the sun weaves the fabric of existence.

Whiteness is ownership of the earth.

Homosexuals in Russia live in peace, work, are promoted, receive national awards for their achievements in science, art or any other sphere, medals are awarded to them, I have awarded them myself.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Try to walk as much as you can, and keep your love for nature, for that is the true way to learn to understand art more and more. Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see her. If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

All art critics are useless or harmful.