Art Quotes - Page 674

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.

I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it.

The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.

A strong work of art really leaves people speechless. They feel a little angry because they don't understand it.

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth are you going to live it?

Management is not a science, it is an art.

I have never understood, for instance, why some people see contemporary art as divided between 'painting' and 'conceptual art', as though this represented a genuine division.

There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.

Sometimes being an artist means knowing when to let someone see something in you that is there that you can't hear or see.

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth is now obsolete. Science has become an integral and most important part of our civilization, and scientific work means contributing to its development. Science in our technical age has social, economic, and political functions, and however remote one's own work is from technical application it is a link in the chain of actions and decisions which determine the fate of the human race. I realized this aspect of science in its full impact only after Hiroshima.

Fine art is in the last consequence, philosophy expressed visually.

It's in our nature. If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that. So, when you fill a gallery with dirt and someone comes along waving wads of bills, it's difficult not to take them because they become a tangible acknowledgement that what you've been doing actually makes sense.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

My greatest aim has been to advance the art of photography and to make it what I think I have, a great and truthful medium of history.

Too much reasoning has spoiled the contemporary mind. People have lost their hearts and faith.

People should relate to nature as birds do. Birds don't run around carefully preparing fields, planting seeds, and harvesting food. They don't create anything . . . they just receive what is there for them with a humble and grateful heart.