Art Quotes - Page 58

There are those who open their hearts to others...who never think twice about giving of themselves. They are the wonderful warmhearted people who make all the difference in our lives.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.

A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

The head talks to the heart and the heart talks to the feet.

One eye sees, the other feels.

I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

People have to follow their hearts, and if their hearts lead them to Wal-Mart, so be it.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

I still love with all my heart anything that I have ever loved in my life.

Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

I don't have dinner parties - I eat my dinner in bed.

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.