Art Quotes - Page 854

An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.

When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.

When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

There is no way to success in art but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment.

We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.

If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins.

What I want to do right now is give hip hop back to the hood. Before it was a neighborhood thing where it belonged to the hood and the rappers were reporting and there were rules and parameters. Now it seems like the artist's game.

Unless your life arises from your spontaneity, from your very empty heart, it is going to be just superficial. And with the superficial you cannot be blissful.

Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

Becoming a fashion designer is agreeing with the fact that what you experience or what you see as free is also connected to a system. Does that mean giving up your freedom? I still don't know the answer. There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art.

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

I am inspired by life, past experiences, what's to come, women around me, art, colors, paintings, and emotions.

At the deepest level, the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source. When you are an artist, you are a healer; a wordless trust of the same mystery is the foundation of your work and its integrity.

In this culture the soul and the heart too often go homeless. Listening creates a holy silence. When you listen generously to people, they can hear the truth in themselves, often for the first time. And in the silence of listening, you can know yourself in everyone. Eventually you may be able to hear, in everyone and beyond everyone, the unseen singing softly to itself and to you.

O poor, unthinking human heart! Error will not go away, logic and reason are slow to penetrate.We cling with both arms to false hope, refusing to believe in the weightiest proofs against it, embracing it with all our strength. In the end it escapes, ripping our veins and draining our heart's blood; until, regaining consciousness, we rush to fall into snares of delusion all over again

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart.

Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.