Art Quotes - Page 149

What's meant to be will always find a way.

If we want authenticity, we have to initiate it. Self-discovery takes us to the wildest places on earth

A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.

What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride that's both scary and exciting at the same time - the rise and fall of which defines our journey.

Jiu Jitsu at the end of the day, is the art of expressing yourself honestly. Everytime you put on a Gi, you can't lie.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

'One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever.'

My heart shattered. My world shattered

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

The big, strong, tough guy goes to class, and he keeps getting tapped by the skinny, technical guy. It begins to change him. It makes him humble. That's what Jiu Jitsu does to you. It makes you humble.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

Love, like life, is so insecure. It moves in our lives and occupies its sweet space in our hearts so easily. But it never guarantees that it will stay there forever. Probably that's why it is so precious.

If it's still in your mind, it is still in your heart.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

You train your heart to control your body. That's what you do when you fast.

I think our fans are a bit like us — they’re very fun, like to have a laugh, like to party. I think that’s what comes across on our album as well. It’s very fun. It’s music that you could play at a party, but it also deals with teenage relationships.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.

Vision is the Source and hope of life. The greatest gift ever given to mankind is not the gift of sight, but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes; vision is a function of the heart. ‘Eyes that look are common, but eyes that see are rare.’ Nothing noble or noteworthy on earth was ever done without vision.