Quotes of: Modern-art Keyword

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.

The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

The Palace

Any training is initially difficult, but with persistence practice, we can master the art.

Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Quand tu es dépendant des autres pour le moindre geste, il faut être pote avec la grande aiguille de l'horloge. La patience est un art qui s'apprend patiemment.

Patients

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

The Thirteenth Tale

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.

Voice of Reason

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

The Weight of Glory

Battle was a masculine art. A woman wanting to come to the battlefield was like... well, like a man wanting to read. Unnatural.

The Way of Kings

Follow his intuition is the art of being guided by the Angel of the heart

Your Mind Your Life : How To Create A Wonderful Life

People have to create some sort of art so they have something to think about other than their shitty lives.

This Song Will Save Your Life

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Agnes Martin: Writings

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Mike Norton

There isn't much art to writing, you just feel; feel everything deeply and somehow transform your lessons into a magical piece of work that will help someone else's heartache.

Nikki Rowe

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

O. R. Melling

Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

Patti Smith Just Kids