Art Quotes - Page 809

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you’re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that’s all you need - and a lot of heart.

We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.

Innovation-the heart of the knowledge economy-is fundamentally social.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

Do not worry about what others are doing! Each of us should turn the searchlight inward and purify his or her own heart as much as possible.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Dating means two things; disillusionment or a racing heart.

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

In ordinary life, the action of a third party does not free the contractor from an obligation; but the advantage of making a contract with heaven is that intentions are valid currency.

To obtain the pure silence necessary for the disciple, the heart and emotions, the brain and its intellectualisms, have to be put aside. Both are but mechanisms, which will perish with the span of man's life. It is the essence beyond, that which is the motive power, and makes man live, that is now compelled to rouse itself and act.

Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.

It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand -- having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.

Don't let people's compliments go to your head, and don't let their criticisms go to your heart. The degree to which you do either of these things is the degree to which you'll be ruled by what other people think of you.

Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.

The main thing Karate offers to me is a philosophy of life. The philosophy of Karate is respect and discipline. You give 100% of whatever you do, in every activity.

It's only men that I strip and flip. My companies I hold long and close to my heart.

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

The most important lesson I received from Conceptual art consisted in the recording of simple and obvious things, and viewing them under a whole new light.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.