Art Quotes - Page 566

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction.

No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.

Harriet Tubman, woman of earth, whipscarred, a summoning, a shinning

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

I think good art does come from a dark place.

The way to beat Luke," he said. "If I'm right, it's the only way you'll stand a chance." I took a deep breath. "Okay. I'm listening." Nico glanced inside my room. His eyebrows furrowed. "Is that...is that blue birthday cake?" He sounded hungry, maybe a little wistful. I wondered if the poor kid had ever had a birthday party, or if he'd ever even been invited to one. :Come inside for cake and ice cream," I said. "It sounds like we've got a lot to talk about.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

What is about to come upon the earth is not just a revival, or another awakening, it is a veritable revolution. The vision was given in order to begin to awaken those who are destined to radically change the course, and even the very definition of Christianity.

Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own?

When I moved into making sculpture, I could handle steel the way it had been handled in the technological revolution. I could use it the way bridge builders used it; I could use it the way they used it in industry and building and not the way it had been used in art.

I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.

I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract for he must create his own work from his visual impressions. A realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

Art is the accomplice of love.

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure.