Art Quotes - Page 850

It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

Drawing is the honesty of the art.

Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.

In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.

The greeting of peace (as-salamu 'alaykum) has many meanings. One of these meanings is that the person you are greeting will be safe from you (from your tongue, your heart, and your hand) and that you will not transgress against that person with your words or your deeds. This greeting is also a prayer for peace, safety, mercy, and blessings. We should take these noble meanings, which we so often say with our tongues, and make them our way of life in our dealings with other people.

To quit this troubled world is better than to enter it: the rosebud enters the garden with straitened heart and departs smiling.

If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

Something impacts me emotionally, art is a kind of outlet, and I figure it's the same for a lot of artists. The way my mind deals with things is cinematic.

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love.

An unprecedented wave of enthusiasm for missionary work is sweeping the entire earth. It is not man-made! It comes from the Lord, who said, “I will hasten my work in its time” (D&C 88:73).

Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

It's easy to be a victim. Look how easy the Democrat Party has made almost half this country think they're victims of something.

There is no news media. There's simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!

With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action.

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

Lovers drink wine all day and night and tear the veils of the mind. When drunk with love's wine, body, heart and soul become one.

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!

Lovers have heartaches That can't be cured by drugs Or sleep, Or games, But only by seeing their beloved.

The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.

The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, "Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh, I can't believe I'm here." I find it vaguely sinister, even.