Art Quotes - Page 623

Only one thing matters: live a good, happy life. Do your heart's bidding, even when it leads you on paths that timid souls would avoid. Even when life is a torment, don't let it harden you.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

Painting is more important than art.

While the world of reality has its limits, the world of your imagination is without boundaries

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.

Your heart grows by giving out, but your mind grows by taking in; and both are necessary to a happy and balanced life of service.

You can lose leverage, and it's the only way a smart guy can go broke.

Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

Most artists should be able to make the album that they want. You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process.

I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!

Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

So, our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world; and do what? To set people's hearts on fire, to do what the Son of God did. He came to set the world on fire in order to inflame it with His love.

You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night.

Being smart as a whip includes knowing when not to crack it.