Quotes of: Thou-art Keyword

Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death.

The Red Tent

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition. ("Talking In The Dark")

Shadows 7

Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.

Sky Bridge

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Small Town Demons

I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.

Selected Letters

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

My Name Is Asher Lev

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

My Name is Red

Art is just an expression. An expression isn't the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.

Maybe Someday

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.

The Moon and Sixpence

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.

Nightmare Abbey

But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Nothing to Be Frightened Of

The art of deep seeing makes gratitude possible.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.

The October Country

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

Let it Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long.

Les Fleurs du Mal

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

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