Art Quotes - Page 99

Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

If it were not for art, I would have killed myself a long time ago.

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

If our identity is in our work, rather than Christ, success will go to our heads, and failure will go to our hearts.

We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.

You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design.

The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communication, where references are incredibly important. It's about making a work that is inspired by something preexisting but changes it to have a new value and meaning that doesn't in any way take away from the original - and, in fact, might provide the original with a second life or a new audience.

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Love is what God is, love is why Jesus came, and love is why he continues to come, year after year to person after person...May you experience this vast, expansive, infinite, indestructible love that has been yours all along. May you discover that this love is as wide as the sky and as small as the cracks in your heart no one else knows about, and may you know, deep in your bones, that love wins.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.

Experts in literacy and child development have discovered that if children know eight nursery rhymes by heart by the time they’re four years old, they’re usually among the best readers by the time they’re eight.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.