Art Quotes - Page 848

Success financially is a measure of creative success, it is the same in all arts.

He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.

If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

A smart machine will first consider which is more worth its while: to perform the given task or, instead, to figure some way out of it.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

A light heart is a magnet for all that you love

Don't make it necessary for me to complain about you to Christ crucified. (There is no one else I can complain to, since there is no one greater than you on earth.

In nature nothing is at standstill, everything pulsates, appears and disappears. Heart, breath, digestion, sleep and waking - birth and death - everything comes and goes in waves. Rhythm, periodicity, harmonious alternation of extremes is the rule. No use rebelling against the very pattern of life.

My heart's gratitude Is My life's plenitude.

A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.

A smart politician needs to come in and create a plan for when our students graduate college, there are opportunities in fields that interest them and a job that's a career. A president whose plans can embrace and incorporate every millennial will be successful.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

Ideas alone can be works of art; they are in a chain of development that may eventually find some form. All ideas need not be made physical.

I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds after opening it.

The charming shall inherit the Earth.

Feelings of longing seemed to burst from her heart; they ran in all directions, like streams of blood, seeking out paths to all the places in the wide landscape where she had lived, to all her sons roaming through the world, to all her dead lying under the earth.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

We have to study with our warm heart, not just with our brain.

To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

To me, editing is not something you can do in a rush because the artists themselves are not always their own best editors. Time is absolutely everything.