Art Quotes - Page 528

As a man I am not a killer. I’m an artist and a modern person. I’ll choose sanity.

Movies are the art form most like man's imagination.

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.

Our duty as storytellers is to bring people to the station. There each person will choose his or her own train...But we must at least take them to the station...to a point of departure.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.

Someday it will dawn on man that woman does not read the wonderful books with which he has filled his libraries, and though she may well admire his marvelous works of art in museums she herself will rarely create, only copy.

In times of change, learners inherit the earth

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

You know love is everything you say A whisper, a word Promises you give You feel it in the heartbeat of the day You know this is the way love is

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

Weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Not only must a warrior be strong with his bow, but he must have a heart full of pity for all living creatures.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of healing to so perfect a state that they were able to abolish surgery, although the surgery of their time was as efficient, or more so, than that of the present day.

I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.

A kiss, when all is told, what is it? An oath taken a little closer, a promise more exact. A wish that longs to be confirmed, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love'. A kiss is a secret which takes the lips for the ear, a moment of infinity humming like a bee, a communion tasting of flowers, a way of breathing in a little of the heart and tasting a little of the soul with the edge of the lips!