Quotes of: Arts Keyword

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other.

Pensées

The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Pensées

You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art

A Passion for His Presence

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

The Piano Teacher

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay.

The Time Machine

I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I could never be a chef, because I could ‘t bare the thought of my art always turning to shit.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I put my deodorant on like I’m painting my armpits with a paintbrush. Art is everywhere and in everything—especially love.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

The Underpainter

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, "completes what nature left unfinished.

Women & Beauty

Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.

The Water Castle

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

What the Best College Teachers Do

Leadership is the art of disappointing people at a rate they can stand.

Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

The way Starr felt in church, that's how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.

White Oleander

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Wyrd Sisters

As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

Watchmen

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

Lisa Loeb