Art Quotes - Page 535

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue

If it were not for the great variability among individuals, medicine might as well be a science, not an art.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

Movie acting may not have a certain kind of glory as true art, but it is damn hard work.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.

LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart, Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears. Ah! she did depart! Soon after she was gone from me, A traveller came by, Silently, invisibly: He took her with a sigh.

"Honor never grows old, and honor rejoices the heart of age. It does so because honor is, finally, about defending those noble and worthy things that deserve defending, even if it comes at a high cost. In our time, that may mean social disapproval, public scorn, hardship, persecution, or as always, even death itself. The question remains: What is worth defending? What is worth dying for? What is worth living for?

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience.

Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . . There is magic in the art of believing! Believe! Engrave these words of the Master in your memory: "All things are possible to those who believe." Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.

Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross.

I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.

...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.

What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

Leaving aside the mysteries and the inequities of human talent, brains, taste, and reputations, the matter of art in photography may come down to this: it is the capture and projection of the delights of seeing; it is the defining of observation full and felt.

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts.

Every person you see has stories, and every person you see has a few that would break your heart. We deserve each other's respect simply because we've survived all we have and kept going anyway.