Art Quotes - Page 693

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable, which is why wheat isn't money; divisible which is why works of art are not money; consistent which is why real estate isn't money; convenient, which is why lead isn't money; value in itself, which is why paper shouldn't be money. Gold answers to all these criteria.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.

For his major contributions to the analysis of algorithms and the design of programming languages, and in particular for his contributions to the "art of computer programming" through his well-known books in a continuous series by this title.

I think most of the art now is involved with a denial of any kind of absolute morality, or general morality.

Somewhere a portion of contemporary art has to exist as an example of what the art and its context were meant to be.

Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.

I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

If we're successful in Iraq ... we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.

I've been extraordinarily fortunate that I've been able to go live a very active, stressful life. And I don't believe that my heart disease changed me for the worst.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that I have decided to end my six-year marriage to Ashton. As a woman, a mother and a wife there are certain values and vows that I hold sacred, and it is in this spirit that I have chosen to move forward with my life.

You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato

I like parties, but I don't like piñatas because the pinata promotes violence against flamboyant animals. Hey, there's a donkey with some pizzazz. Let's kick its ass.

For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design.

A hen's egg is, quite simply, a work of art, a masterpiece of design and construction with, it has to be said, brilliant packaging!

We wanted to interview people on the show, do variety, get the artists, the guests involved with us in our group. They wanted to keep the four guys together. We wanted to change the format.

I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.

Gratefulness is the gallantry of a heart ready to rise to the opportunity a given moment offers.