Art Quotes - Page 145

Sometimes the music just has to tell the story without you trying to tell the story. It depends on the type of music you want to make. If it makes you feel good and party then you go with that. If it makes you feel like speaking on something real and doing a story then it's the beat just has to have the story.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.

We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface.

It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

Studio Ghosts: When you're in the studio painting, there are a lot of people in there with you - your teachers, friends, painters from history, critics... and one by one if you're really painting, they walk out. And if you're really painting YOU walk out.

A shared vision is not an idea...it is rather, a force in people's hearts...at its simplest level, a shared vision is the answer to the question 'What do we want to create?

A person who asks love of others, but does not himself give it, cannot be loved. Always be the first to give love and it shall be given to you. As long as you do not give your heart first, you will be far from love.

Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare. And it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams.

There's some advice for the next generation. If there's a dream in your heart, never let anyone tell you you've got no talent. Get out there, embarrass yourself, and prove to the world you've got no talent. And then give up. 'Cause not everyone can be a genius like me.

Chess is the art which expresses the science of logic.

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations. It is not accidental that our greatest art is intimate and not monumental.

Wherever the fear of God rules in the heart, it will appear both in works of charity and piety, and neither will excuse us from the other.

Whatever we have of this world in our hands, our care must be to keep it out of our hearts, lest it come between us and Christ.