Art Quotes - Page 779

We don't have the choice to control our emotions, but we do have the power to educate our emotions. And we do that through literature and through art and music to give ourselves a repertoire of emotional experiences.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

To shatter even the largest stones on earth, it takes only a small quantity of explosive powder.

Art may not have the power to change the course of history, but it can provide a perspective on historical events that needs to be heard, even if it's seldom heeded. After all the temporary influences that once directed the course of history have vanished, great art survives and continues to speak to each generation.

It's something inside his heart that's bigger than anything. He's got the heart of a lion about to grab something.

The dream in your heart may be bigger than the environment in which you find yourself. Sometimes you have to get out of that environment to see that dream fulfilled. It’s like planting an oak sapling in a pot. Once it becomes rootbound, its growth is limited. It needs a great space to become a mighty oak. So do you.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

I believe in spiritualism. It's like, when you listen to music or something and then you're sort of primed. If you're an artist, you're sort of primed and inspired, and you start drawing, you sort of have the spirit of what you're listening to, still in you. You just have sort of an inspiration.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into frowns, and vice versa. These observations are shared with a hope: that, when schools cut back on music classes, they really think about what they're doing - and don't take music for granted.

In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.

Idealism may get us into the fray, but it is the loss of all we cherish that begins to form in us a heart capable of leading others reluctantly and humbly.

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it’s true. It’s like all art and creation: You’re completely in the moment, and you just feel free.

Art is about expressing the true nature of the human spirit in whatever way one wishes to express it. If it is honest, it is beautiful. If it is not honest, it is obvious.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

Nothing could be further from the authentic art of our time than the idea of a rupture of continuity. Art is - among other things - continuity, and unthinkable without it.

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

Treasures are no longer to be got by instrumental art.