Art Quotes - Page 730

So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.

The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is better to keep a dog as a friend rather than you.

A work of art is finished, from the point of view of the artist, when feeling and perception have resulted in a spiritual synthesis.

She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed in daily life. We develop strategies for encountering change, unfamiliarity and ambiguity in creative ways. We begin to realize that what is taken, as "common sense" is really "cultural sense". Our life becomes richer and deeper for having encountered differences.

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota, without . . . having painted as much as you can cover with your hand, to please somebody or in order to sell the picture more easily.

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Without picking out anyone in particular. I thought Mark Wright was tremendous.

When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets, which obviously are a little more technically advanced than we are here on earth.

Nothing lasts forever on this earth. But whatever's good comes back every once in a while if you let it.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.