Art Quotes - Page 225

In the end, the discipline of verification is what separates journalism from entertainment, propaganda, fiction, or art.

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

When a man is willing to set aside the legitimate appetites of the body to concentrate on the work of praying, he is demonstrating that he means business, that he is seeking with all his heart, and will not let God go unless He answers.

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

It cannot be emphasized too strongly that art, as such, does not "pay," to use an American expression - at least, not in the beginning - and that the art that has to pay its own way is apt to become vitiated and cheap.

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

It is the first vision that counts. The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other... for no two visions are alike, and those who reach the heights have all toiled up steep mountains by a different route. To each has been revealed a different panorama.

It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artist. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need

The composer...joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.

Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect... but, as photographers, we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Time decides who you meet in life, your heart decides who you want in your life, and your behavior decides who stays in your life.

Birth is not a beginning; death is not an end. There is existence without limitation; there is continuity without a starting point.

I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods. Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it. Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

I have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.

History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.