Art Quotes - Page 227

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

It is an art in itself to compose a starting team, finding the balance between creative players and those with destructive powers, and between defence, construction and attack – never forgetting the quality of the opposition and the specific pressures of each match.

I'm not criticizing Hollywood because I work there, I partly live there. But I'm saying this is the way it is, commerce is taking over art. Commerce has become the most important thing in the film industry. Hollywood is an industry, it's not an art form, therefore they have to address the bottom line. But in a way it's sad when you get a remake, isn't it?

You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

The Tonkawa killed him it make my heart hot. I want my people follow after white way. Some white people do that, too.

When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?

Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical.

Grace will expose the deepest issues of your heart, then point you to the Cross which covers everything that's been exposed.

By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart.

In life you make the small decisions with your head and the big decisions with your heart.

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

I will love you until the day they put me in the earth.

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

Love demands patience, desire is restless; What color shall I paint the heart, until you savage it? You shall not ignore me when the time comes, I know, but I may turn to dust before the news reaches you.

Creating relationship is the heart of acting. It is basic. It is essential.