Art Quotes - Page 236

You wouldn't be allowed to get on a particular bus, but you'd be asked to sign your autograph.

The last to learn of gossip are the parties concerned

It’s always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

When you're feeling lost, take heart. It's just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.

Art is not there simply to be understood. ... It is more the sense of an indication or suggestion.

Is it not true that your gloominess and bad temper are due to your lack of determination in breaking the subtle snares laid by your own disordered desires? The daily examination of conscience is an indispensible help if we are to follow our Lord with sincerity of heart and integrity of life.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

Our warriors are no longer limited to the people who fly the airplanes...Our entire force is a warrior force. Being a warrior is not an AFSC, ...it's a condition of the heart.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.

If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives.

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

In martial arts, the biggest enemy is self. Inside you struggle because you want to prove something.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.