Art Quotes - Page 242

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

We are so much more powerful and important than we realize. In each moment that we connect with another, we have the opportunity to etch a memory into their heart.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

A piece of art is never a finished work. It answers a question which has been asked, and asks a new question.

Over the souls of men spread the condor wings of colossal monsters and all manner of evil things prey upon the heart and soul and body of Man. Yet it may be in some far day the shadows shall fade and the Prince of Darkness be chained forever in his hell. And till then mankind can but stand up stoutly to the monsters in his own heart and without, and with the aid of God he may yet triumph.

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin".

I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

I didn't understand art, until one day Tom Brady took me to the museum, and we looked at the Picasso, and he said, 'Rob, that's a touchdown.' We looked at the Rembrandt and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' We looked at the Vermeer and Tom said, 'Rob, that's another touchdown.' And I said, 'No, Tom, that's just a field goal.'

Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

I love because there is not enough room in my heart to hate.

Faith only operates when linked with HIS purposes, and the first of them is to 'bless all families on earth'.

Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

I know that in life there will be sickness, devastation, disappointments, heartache - it's a given. What's not a given is the way you choose to get through it all. If you look hard enough, you can always find the bright side.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.

You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

Listen to the sermon preached to you by the flowers, the trees, the shrubs, the sky, and the whole world. Notice how they preach to you a sermon full of love, of praise of God, and how they invite you to glorify the sublimity of that sovereign Artist who has given them being.

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.