Art Quotes - Page 153

There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living.

Number one, that it is smart to communicate and negotiate with your enemy instead of just waging war with bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Mild autism can give you a genius like Einstein. If you have severe autism, you could remain nonverbal. You don't want people to be on the severe end of the spectrum. But if you got rid of all the autism genetics, you wouldn't have science or art. All you would have is a bunch of social 'yak yaks.'

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm

Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.

A blind man can make art if what is in his mind can be passed to another mind in some tangible form.

Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.

If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.

Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

If you think, you are late. If you are late, you use strength. If you use strength you get tired. And if you get tired, you die!

I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.

Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but you let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want. Take away what I do. Take away what I need. Take away everything that takes me from you.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.

But never give your love, my friend, Unto a foolish heart

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

In a sense, every work you do is a self-portrait because your paintings always reveal more about you than about your subject. Your experience of something, not the something itself, is the true underlying subject of every work you do.

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs through us. Sannyas means to let this understanding become the foundation of your life: We are not, God is. Let the ego disappear, evaporate, and you will find infinite contentment. With the ego there is only misery; without the ego there is only God; and God is bliss, and God is benediction, and God is ecstasy. Die to the ego so that God can live in you.

We have unleashed aspirations of youngsters. Democracy is not going to go backwards. India is too big a country to be run by one person. We are going to accelerate the process of democratization and I think that is the biggest opportunity for Congress party because that is the DNA of the Congress