Art Quotes - Page 117

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.

When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.

The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

No matter how smart or well-educated you are, you can be deceived.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In my opinion, an individual without any love of the arts cannot be considered completely civilized.

Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

A really good picture looks as if it's happened at once. It's an immediate image. For my own work, when a picture looks labored and overworked, and you can read in it as well - she did this and then she did that; there is something in it that has not got to do with beautiful art to me. And I usually throw these out, though I think very often it takes ten of those over-labored efforts to produce one really beautiful wrist motion that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it, and therefore it looks as if it were born in a minute.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

Death is a very important part of life.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

GOD made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start. Now I'm alert to GOD's ways; I don't take God for granted. Every day I review the ways he works; I try not to miss a trick. I feel put back together, and I'm watching my step. GOD rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.