Art Quotes - Page 238

This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

I didn't want to do the obvious role that you see in Hollywood most of the time, which is the heartbroken girl who's waiting to be rescued by the guy, blah, blah, blah. I wanted to do something different.

At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.

We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.

No force, no torture, no intrigue can eradicate Marxism-Leninism from the minds and hearts of men.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.

When the world says, "Give up," Hope whispers, "Try it one more time".You have more potential than you believe you do.Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened.

Art starts alone - and convinces society later.

[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get elected, and compromised repeatedly to stay in office.