Art Quotes - Page 218

Deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often even funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all.

The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most seductive, was written by Max Bruch. But the most inward, the heart’s jewel, is Mendelssohn’s.

They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

If our worship is just great youth meetings, nice songs, lots of jumping around and a few CDs, then we're missing it. Our vertical expression must have a horizontal effect. So, we'll continue to worship, praise and honour God with heart, soul, mind and strength the best we know how, but the fruit of that must be a generation who are totally committed to reaching the lost and helping those who need help, locally and globally.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.

To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.

I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal attraction draws me down into the abysses of thought, down into those innermost recesses which never cease to fascinate the strong. I shall spend my life gazing at the ocean of art, where others voyage or fight; and from time to time I’ll entertain myself by diving for those green and yellow shells that nobody will want. So I shall keep them for myself and cover the walls of my hut with them.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity.