Art Quotes - Page 83

Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.

You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

You cheer my heart, who build as if Rome would be eternal.

The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that you know you would not have brought out of yourself. He makes you discover something interesting in your life. If you are living like an animal, what is the point of living? What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.

NEPOTISM, n. Appointing your grandmother to office for the good of the party.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that have wandered from You and soften their hardness.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.

Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.

I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm.

Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.