Art Quotes - Page 134

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

I didn't accept it. I received it.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

The search for God means having the courage to set out on a risky path, it means following our restless hearts.

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.

If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!

I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.

In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair, Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations, Through our doubts and frustrations, In my violence and my turbulence, Through my fear and my confessions, And my anguish and my pain, Through my joy and my sorrow, In the promise of another tomorrow, I'll never let you part, For you're always in my heart.

If we fail to nourish our souls, they wither, and without soul, life ceases to have meaning.... The creative process shrivels in the absence of continual dialogue with the soul. And creativity is what makes life worth living.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

To teach is to touch the heart and impel it to action.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

The party don't stop, til the casket drop.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.