Art Quotes - Page 797

Our Savior was crucified for our sakes that by His death He might give us life and train and attract us all to endurance. To Him I press on, and to the Father and to the Holy Spirit. I strive to be found true, judging myself unworthy of this world's goods; and yet not I because of the world, but the world because of me. Think of all these things in your heart; follow them with zeal; fight, as you have been commanded, for the truth to the death: For Christ was made 'obedient' even 'to death'

An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was where I changed from a boy with his eyes squeezed shut to a man with his eyes wide open so that the sunlight might reach my heart despite all that darkness.

Americans rightly asked, if this is the way our government responds to a natural disaster it knew about days in advance, how would it respond to a surprise terrorist attack? How would it respond to an earthquake?

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

I thought when love for you died, I should die. It's dead. Alone, most strangely, I live on.

Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

Once you have met a true human being, Let him not disappear from the horizon of your HEART.

Friends come back from their worship with a new sense of ordination, but not the ordination of human hands. Something has happened in the stillness that makes the heart more tender, more sensitive, more shocked by evil, more dedicated to ideals of life, and more eager to push back the skirts of darkness and to widen the area of light and love.

Everybody knows that abstract art can be art, and most people know that they may not like it, even if they understand there's another purpose to it.

Boxing’s an art, it’s a science, and you don’t go out to knock people out. If they happen to get knocked out, they happen to run into one of these bricks by mistake [looks at his fists], that’s their fault.

The Democratic Party is now a political mechanism having a genuine political principle: national socialism.

I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.

The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda.