Art Quotes - Page 59

I paint flowers so they will not die.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

My own soul is my most faithful friend. My own heart, my truest confidant

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

Whatever you keep hidden in your heart, God manifests in you outwardly. Whatever the root of the tree feeds on in secret, affects the bough and the leaf.

I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible... The quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul... The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.

True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.

Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet.

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

Listen, you have now found the conditions in which the desire of your heart can become the reality of your being. Stay here, until you acquire a force in you that nothing can destroy. Then you'll need to go back into life, and there you will measure yourself constantly with forces which will show you your place.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

The vision of the eye is limited; the vision of the heart transcends all barriers of time and space.

Moscow... how many strains are fusing in that one sound, for Russian hearts! What store of riches it imparts!

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry.

Our responsibility is to get God's word to their ears. Only God can get the word from their ears to their heart.

I look for the John Proctor who took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!