Art Quotes - Page 867

When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing.

I alone have the mind of a fool, and am all muddled and vague. The people are so smart and bright. While I am just dull and confused.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of others. It is an attitude, not a routine.

A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic level, workable government, land and natural resources, in about that order of importance.

Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.

It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

There's a lot of people out there that's starting to sound like me so I guess I'm doing something right.

Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours...My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

When a man's hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.

When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person's heart

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

Silly dark elves. Earth is for Druids.

In my heart, I'm so far from done.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.

Get off my back, save a heart attack, ain't nobody humpin' around.

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.

I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.