Art Quotes - Page 109

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Love is the virtue of the Heart, Sincerity is the virtue of the Mind, Decision is the virtue of the Will, Courage is the virtue of the Spirit.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

Up there on the screen, we can all fly. But down here on earth, we need to be each others wings.

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don't see a different purpose for it now.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

It all depends on you. If you want it to be different,it will be different. Don't look at the world with your eyes but with your heart.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

When happiness points in one direction while wisdom, truth, integrity, and common sense point in another, that's when really smart people start doing really stupid things.

Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first

Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.

I have an ambition to live 300 years. I will not live 300 years. Maybe I will live one year more. But I have the ambition. Why you will not have ambition? Why? Have the greatest ambition possible. You want to be immortal? Fight to be immortal. Do it. You want to make the most fantastic art or movie? Try. If you fail, is not important. We need to try.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user.