Art Quotes - Page 666

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists.

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.

I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.

You are your own superstar, and only you can shape the movie that you make.

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Lord Jesus,' Christy whispered, 'I want You to hold the key. I want You to decide what should happen in my heart's garden. I want You to let in or send out anything or anybody You want. Especially with guys. I don't want to ever unlock that gate again. I want you to open it only when the right man comes along. Take the key, Lord. Take all my keys. I'll wait for you.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

My concern is never art, but always what art can be used for.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Let my heart be broken with the things that break God's heart.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.

Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

A powerful combination to ensure success is having the vision of an eagle and the heart of a lion.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.