Art Quotes - Page 789

It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.

When we said that no more areas of power should go to the EU we were right. And now thanks to the European Union Act 2011, by law that cannot happen without a referendum. And we are just as right that the EU has more power in our national life than it should, and I believe as strongly as I ever have that when the right moment comes this party should set out to reduce it.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share the fear of belonging to another, or to others, or to God; love or money, tender equated in advertising and the world, where only money is currency, and under dead trees and brittle ornaments prehensile hands exchange forgeries of what the heart dare not surrender.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

The difference between the forgettable and the enduring is artistry.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

If I were a painter, I would paint beautiful bodies - I would paint nipples, and I would paint Bibles. Am I going to say, 'I'm not going to paint this woman's neck because people will think I just want to lick on necks?' Please! That's not what art is about.

Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they offer players the opportunity to explore, be creative, learn through interaction and express themselves to others. It is vitally important that we protect and nurture this new art form so that it can reach its full potential. Like most new forms of artistic expression that have come before (music, novels, movies), the primary critics of video games are the people that do not play them.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.

In general, therefore, color is a means of exerting a direct influence upon the soul. Color is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many strings. The artist is the hand that purposefully sets the soul vibrating by means of this or that key.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

All art constantly aspires to the condition of music....In its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; they inhere in and completely saturate each other.

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art.