Art Quotes - Page 115

A lot of people don't understand the Black Panthers Party's relationship with white mother country radicals.

Yes, we do defend our office as we do defend our homes. This is a constitutional right everybody has, and nothing's funny about that. The only reason they get mad at the Black Panther Party when you do it is for the simple reason that we're political.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

I was born with the biggest middle finger on Earth.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

Happiness is caused by things that happen around me, and circumstances will mar it; but joy flows right on through trouble; joy flows in the night as well as in the day; joy flows through persecution and opposition. It is an unceasing fountain bubbling up in the heart; a secret spring the world can't see and doesn't know anything about.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Our breath, like our heartbeat, is the most reliable rhythm in our lives. When we become attuned to this constant rhythm, our breath can gradually teach us to come back to the original silence of the mind.

The body's weakness comes from illnesses, while the heart's weakness comes from sins. And just as the body does not taste the delights of food when it is ill, the heart does not taste the delights of worship when it is sinful.

It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can be a lovely, merciful thing to think, 'Actually, there is no path I can take without having my heart broken, so why not get on with it and stop wanting these extra-special circumstances which stop me from doing something courageous?'

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Nature is the art of God.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

'Victorious' for me was a chance to write a song exactly how I was feeling - I was feeling triumphant, I was feeling like I could do anything as long as I've got the people that I love by my side. We're gonna go out and conquer it, and party, and just be awesome.

Life without tapas, is like a heart without love.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Say unto thine own heart, 'I am mine own redeemer.

The most beautiful pieces of art come from the ugliest situations.

The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

There can be no Kingdom of God in the world without the Kingdom of God in our hearts.

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.