Art Quotes - Page 565

Love is the only shocking act left on the face of the earth.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.

Work hard every day at increasing your purity of heart, which consists in appraising things and weighing them in the balance of God's will.

Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

Seek for the truth from the heart which is empty of thought.

Obedience is not truly performed by the body of him whose heart is dissatisfied. The shell without a kernel is not fit for store.

The idea that music is art has been something we advocated for years. And yet it doesn't receive the same treatment as art in the sense of the value of what it is, especially nowadays when it's been devalued and diminished to almost the point that it has to be given away for free.

To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

You left ground and sky weeping, mind and soul full of grief. No one can take your place in existence or in absence.

Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water.

What is the Heart? A flower opening.

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

The wild hawk to the wind-swept sky The deer to the wholesome wold; And the heart of a man to the heart of a maid, As it was in the days of old.

You don't learn from smart people, you learn from idiots. Watch what they do, and then don't do it!

I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

We have probed the earth, excavated it, burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.... That does not fit my definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we would have been evicted long ago.

I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

I will be led and taught of the Holy Spirit. God desires full development, use and activity of our faculties. The Holy Spirit can and will guide me in direct proportion to the time and effort I will expend to know and do the will of God. I must read the Bible to know God's will. At every point I will obey and do I will die to self. I will begin to ask God to put me in a service of constant circumstances where to live Christ I must die to self. I will be alive unto God. That I may learn to love Him with my heart, mind, soul, and body.

I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.

Tell everyone that your mistakes are art. You can get away with a lot that way.

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting.

One's art is just one's effort to wed oneself to the universe, to unify oneself through union.