Art Quotes - Page 161

Forgiveness sees wisely. It willingly acknowledges what is unjust, harmful, and wrong. It bravely recognizes sufferings of the past, and understands the conditions that brought them about.Forgiveness honors the heart's greatest dignity. Whenever we are lost, it brings us back to the ground of love.Without forgiveness our lives are chained, forced to carry the sufferings of the past and repeat them with no release.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.

I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families or some rubbish of that sort.

The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah. And it will worry and feel anxious if it is settled with the people.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

Being and having in our society teaches us how to take possession of things, when it should rather initiate us in the art of letting go. For there is neither freedom nor real life without an apprenticeship in letting go.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

Where faith commences, science ends. Both these arts of the human mind must be strictly kept apart from each other. Faith has its origin in the poetic imagination; knowledge, on the other hand, originates in the reasoning intelligence of man. Science has to pluck the blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge, unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical imaginings of faith or not.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Does capital punishment tend to the security of the people? By no means. It hardens the hearts of men, and makes the loss of life appear light to them; and it renders life insecure, inasmuch as the law holds out that property is of greater value than life.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

Church should be a place where love is evident, God delivers, lives are changed, hearts are healed, and families restored.