Art Quotes - Page 746

Growth of consciousness does not depend on the might of the intellect but on the conviction of the heart.

The fiction is like the art, in making stuff out of nothing, in creating a hyper-reality to have an experience. If it's strong enough, and your spell is strong enough, then you become, like, ultra-magnetic and then everything comes to you.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.

It's hard to find a girl with a heart of gold, when you're living in a four letter world.

The mind grows by taking in, but the heart grows by giving out.

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.

There it was, there it is, the place where during the best time of our lives friendship had its home and happiness its headquarters.

You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.

There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.

The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege.

I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.

In and out of my heart flowed my rainbow blood.

It is essential to understand that battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.

Once a man has made a commitment to a way of life, he puts the greatest strength in the world behind him. It's something we call heart power. Once a man has made this commitment, nothing will stop him short of success.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

If heaven existed as a physical building on earth, human beings would remodel it to make it right.

I don't see myself as an artist. I work with artists and collaborate with them, but then it becomes graphic design. It's not an art. I'm a graphic designer.

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.