Art Quotes - Page 550

There is an art to science, and a science in art; the two are not enemies, but different aspects of the whole.

Talent is only a starting point.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.

Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.

By the dharma is meant the heart, for there is no dharma apart from the heart.

The war brought out all the art in me.

To equip a pedestrian with shelter, bedding, utensils, food, and other necessities, in a pack so light and small that he can carry it without overstrain, is really a fine art.

The 1,000 Buddha, to me, is almost like a contemporary art piece.

Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.

Dance until the earth dance.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

The strongest thing that any human being has going is their own integrity and their own heart. As soon as you start veering away from that, the solidity that you need in order to be able to stand up for what you believe in and deliver what's really inside, it's just not going to be there.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.