Art Quotes
You write poems with your fingertipsAnd I keep listening to the songs written on my skinBy some distant dream, similar wordsBut the verses never meet...
The true cost of following your dreams isn't what you sacrifice when you chase them, it's what you lose when you don't
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.
People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth.
Think while walking, walk while thinking, and let writing be but the light pause, as the body on a walk rests in contemplation of wide open spaces.
You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.
And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.
Do we create an impact to make money or de we make money to create an IMPACT ?
Fifty grand for a paper bucket? Well it was all about context, you see.
The White House usually followed the seagull theory of management: fly in, squawk and flap and shit, and fly away.
What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant coup de maître.
Politics is a delicate art of saying what people want to hear and doing what people don't want to hear
You are no greater than the friends you keep, the books you read, the heroes you admire, and the obstacles you overcome.
At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise.
If you live in the desert, view the sun not as your enemy, but as your friend. If you live in the wilderness, view nature not as your adversary, but as your companion.
Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I’m ready for you. Dear future, I’m coming for you.
Be happy when you work, thankful when you earn, cautious when you spend, shrewd when you save, and charitable when you give.
To be happy: the simple pursue pleasure, the common pursue riches, the uncommon pursue knowledge, and the exceptional pursue wisdom.
When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!
A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I want to tell a 'silly love story.' The fact it exists through my gaze is radical.
The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is, ” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.
Whether the changes that are coming in your life will be unexpected or determined by your choices and actions, the wheels are in motion. The adventure has just begun.
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words have the ability to change our lives simply by being next to each other.
Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.
It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.
Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)
Art should be seen with the heart, not with the eyes, for its beauty is in the energy it radiates.
How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.
I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.
Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.
Beauty and desire to possess have driven men mad for centuries.
Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.
Be calm...calm as a calm lagoon, then you will look beautiful as a beautiful calm lagoon crowned by the Moon and sheltered by the brilliance of the stars reclaiming your royalty of regal life...