Art Quotes - Page 641

In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and studies between the mind and the body, and that both become the object of their application; but, unfortunately, all is given to the latter and nothing to the former. The legs are rarely guided by the brain, and, since intelligence and taste do not reside in the feet, one often goes astray.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart' (Psalm 101-2, NIV). When God speaks to me about being more loving, this verse reminds me to make application in my family first-and then to others. It forces me to ask, 'Am I more spiritual, more loving, or more fun somewhere else? Who gets my best-my family or others?'

Art is the most frenzied orgy man is capable of.

I feel very sorry for women who continue to purchase real fur coats. They are lacking in a woman's most important requisites, heart and sensitivity.

All life on earth emanates from the green of the plant

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."

Your heart is like glass, if it breaks, it's pretty hard to put it back together again.

God will show you who to partner with when the time comes.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.

Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.

Basically, I have two speeds.... Hostile or smart-aleck. Your choice.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

No invader has ever conquered the heart of Poland, that spirit which is the inheritance of sons and daughters, the private passion of families and the ancient, unbreakable tie to all those who came before.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

I was asked once,'your a smart man,why arnt you rich?I replied 'your a rich man,why arnt you smart?

I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.