Art Quotes - Page 147

If the heart is fed by love, the greed for pleasure would disappear.

The art of conducting consists in knowing when to stop conducting to let the orchestra play.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

I knew I wasn't going to lose and that was based on the fact that I wanted not to lose.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.

Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely: to preserve and transmit knowledge. In olden days, people did not write books, they incorporated their knowledge into works of art. We would find a great many ideas in the works of ancient art passed down to us, if only we knew how to read them.

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become.

At the center of the Universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every person. Anything that we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow human beings, that is our job. Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.

Learning to see love and to express that love is the purpose of living this life. What's real has love at its heart; the universe is constructed from love, and that love is very much tied to our power of attention and imagination.

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time. Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately. For each there is a time to love and a time to die.

The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings... We must run roughshod over all these ancient puerilities, overturn the barriers that reason never erected, give back to the arts and sciences the liberty that is so precious to them.

I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout.

When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in the heart; there's a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with. As long as young people are asking, 'Can I get away with this?' or 'Can I get away with that?' I wonder if they're regenerate. If they're asking, instead, 'How can I grow in holiness?' then I suspect they've begun to understand.

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

The only bipartisanship you ever see is when they finally sign a bill and everybody says, 'Gee, isn't that wonderful?'

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.