Art Quotes - Page 795

The benefits of detachment in the face of intense emotional activity can’t be overstated. It doesn’t cut you off from your heart center; it opens you more. In fact, when you refrain from absorbing the energy around you, you’ll remain clear and grounded, you’ll be able to easily access your creative and intuitive channel, and you’ll be able to choose to use the messages you receive from your Higher Self.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

All of the significant art of today stems from Conceptual art. This includes the art of installation, political, feminist and socially directed art.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity – you are in Christ

Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail to take a pride in his country's participation in the story of mankind, as represented in carvings, sculpture, music, paintings and the other arts. And there is a personal commitment to this, for no man can really say he is alone: we are all joined through our identity, with the cultures which are part of the mainstream of life

It's art. It's commerce. It's heartbreaking and it's fun. It's a great way to live.

There is a very big forgiving side in me that keeps me very light in my heart and happy.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

Once you embrace that WHO you are defines you, you can conquer the world. What matters is what's in your heart, what your goals are and what kind of life you want to lead.

Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.

I want. . . a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.

May you be blessed with everything your heart desires.

You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must.

The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it.