Art Quotes - Page 822

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

It doesn't matter whether you are pursuing success in business, sports, the arts, or life in general: The bridge between wishing and accomplishing is discipline.

Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.

She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted channels and passageways, and yet she managed to toss her pebble right down to the bottom of it all.

I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master - so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil - so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.

I can't really articulate what I feel.

The way to God is ever within the heart, within the loving heart.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.

Since the time of the cavemen, man has glorified himself, has made himself divine, and his monstrous vanity has caused human catastrophe. Art has collaborated in this false development. I find this concept of art which has sustained man's vanity to be loathsome.

The soul on earth is an immortal guest.

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

The heart at peace is its own reward, needing nothing outside of itself to be fully content.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

If they'd lower the taxes and get rid of the smog and clean up the traffic mess, I really believe I'd settle here until the next earthquake.