Art Quotes

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.

Usually action films have a formula: good guy gets in trouble, his wife dies, friends have problems, so he goes to the mountain, learns martial arts, comes back, and kills the bad guy.

However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.

I was born from nature therefore, I am art.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

If creativity calls, you answer. Otherwise, the words are lost to you forever.

Her face was art and her body was poetry in a short black dress.

Trusting God’s plan is the only secret I know in the gentle art of not freaking out.