If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.
High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
A piece of art is a compact form of the universe.
The act of contributing to the lives of others is its own reward. A servant's heart is a greater motivator than financial gain.
A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart
We humans are a hungry lot. We are driven by a craving to know who we are. Yet who we are is embedded in the heart of a holy God. Unless we seek for ourselves in the epicenter of God's grace, we will be forever condemned to walk the arid edges of self-understanding.
I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.
A brilliant 1989 album, Oh Mercy; some career retrospectives; and two albums of American folk songs, with just Bob Dylan and his guitar and harmonica. All that culminated in the Grammy-winning comeback album, Time Out of Mind (1997). Once again, just as Dylan seemed to be out of it, he was back at the top of his game.
In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.