Art Quotes - Page 223

Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

One needs no strange spiritual faith to worship the earth.

You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.

Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understanding and nurturing your people, and heart. Winning is the result.

The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

I find in all the artists that I admire most a disturbing element, a distortion, giving evidence of a struggle . . . . In great art, this conflict is hidden, it is unresolved. All that is bursting with energy is disturbing - not perfect.

The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits

I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ.

Art is the proper task of life.

God has always sought a humble people. He can use no other... There is always much need of heart preperation, in humility and separation, before God can consistently come. The depth of any revival will be determined exactly by the spirit of repentance that is obtained. In fact, this is key to every true revival born of God.

Painting, like poetry, selects in the universe whatever she deems most appropriate to her ends. She assembles in a single fantastic personage, circumstances and features which nature distributes among many individuals. From this combination, ingeniously composed, results that happy imitation by virtue of which the artist earns the title of inventor and not of servile copyist.

The night has a thousand eyes, And the day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies, With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies, When love is done.