Art Quotes - Page 690

Your heart is the face of your spirit, it holds everything you have been, you are, and what you are going to be.

The secret gem of truth has been hidden in the core of your own heart all along. My invitation is to stop all movement of your mind away from truth so that you can discover directly, for yourself, this jewel that is alive within you.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.

The art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease among their fellows.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children.

The greatest good on this earth is God

You are no better than you should be.

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

There is no place in the kingdom of heaven for a divided heart. It is in the division that love is lost; and to lose My love, My child, is to lose what cannot be regained. For a loving heart is a vessel of light and mercy. It is a receptacle into which I pour My grace. It is untarnished by avarice and indifferent to the call of worldly ambition.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part.

She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.