Art Quotes - Page 140

My fear of life is necessary to me, as is my illness. Without anxiety and illness, I am a ship without a rudder. My art is grounded in reflections over being different from others. My sufferings are part of my self and my art. They are indistinguishable from me, and their destruction would destroy my art. I want to keep those sufferings

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.

One might not think of light as a matter of fact, but I do. And it is, as I said, as plain and open and direct an art as you will ever find.

Reconciliation is not to be withheld when repentance—that is, deep, heart‐changing acknowledgement of sin and a radical redirection of life—takes place in the one being rebuked. Nor is reconciliation to be extended to someone who has not repented.

You're incredibly brave. And you're going to make it through this because you have a very strong heart. A heart that is capable of loving so much about life and people in a way you never dreamt a heart could love. And you're beautiful in here. Your heart is so beautiful and someday someone is going to love that heart like it deserves to be loved.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

The future is now. Roll up your sleeves and let your passion flow. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.

People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral.

What does the artist do? He draws connections. He ties the invisible threads between things. He dives into history, be it the history of mankind, the geological history of the Earth or the beginning and end of the manifest cosmos.

I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.