Art Quotes - Page 552

I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see me as a chick. So I went as a girl, as like an experiment and it worked really well and everyone was really nice to me but I couldn't talk obviously... you know train conductors were really cool to me on my commute... HA! I looked hot as a chick!

the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?

Our Nation has a diverse and extremely rich cultural heritage. It is a source of pride and strength to millions of Americans who look to the arts for inspiration, communication and the opportunity for creative self-expression.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

Slavery discourages arts and manufacturing ...[and] every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant.

When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart.

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

And the meek shall inherit the earth.

To meditate is to listen with a receptive heart.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Light is impressionism.

Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.