Art Quotes - Page 241

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

But let's speak of art for a moment. Yes, art. I know a gentleman who makes excellent portraits. This gentleman is a camera.

A woman [shouldn't] have to give a man her body to get his heart.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself.

The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.

What does it mean when your heart's already numb? You're a professional.

You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. You see two people and you think they belong together, but nothing happens. The thought of losing so much control over personal happiness is unbearable. That’s the burden. Like wings, they have weight, we feel that weight on our backs, but they are a burden that lifts us. Burdens that allow us to fly.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you.

That longing in the heart of a woman to share life together as a great adventure-that comes straight from the heart of God, who also longs for this. He does not want to be an option in our lives. He does not want to be an appendage, a tagalong. Neither does any woman. God is essential. He wants us to need him-desperately. Eve is essential. She has an irreplaceable role to play. And so you'll see that women are endowed with fierce devotion, an ability to suffer great hardships, a vision to make the world a better place

When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

Talking with other artists is an incredible process. You engage with the work very differently...a nd different relationships between different works start to emerge. To tap into that energy-to tap into that moment-is great for me as an exercise.

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.

. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.