Art Quotes - Page 828

Somehow it has been forgotten that the Republican party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement, with one simple creed: that slavery is a violation of the rights of man.

Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.

The core values of our constitution are at the heart of our nation's progress.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration.

I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged.

Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the given material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

Art is really whispering, not shouting.