Art Quotes - Page 542

The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.

Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.

Do you know what it's like to run spellcheck for six hours? It's like a party in purgatory. A party in purgatory where all they have to drink is sugar-free Kool-aid, and the only game to play is Monopoly, and none of your friends show up.

Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not.

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

Any form of art is a form of power.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.

What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.

While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without a heart?

I don't think you need to be so result-oriented when you're trying to define the success of an art work. I think we can allow some unpredictability.

Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? To learn the art of remaining motionless amid the agitation of the whirlwind, to learn to remain still and to be as transparent as this fixed light amid the frantic branches this may be a program for life.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.