Quotes About Preserving Art

#1. Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Rollo May

#2. Do not worry yourself so much. Take joy in things that are joyful, there is no harm in that.

Josi S. Kilpack

#3. I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.

Brenda Romero

#4. The need has gone; the memorial thereof remains.

Ovid

#5. Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

George Edward Woodberry

#6. For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

Maajid Nawaz

#7. It is simply not consistent with either my character or my confidence in my God-given athletic ability to cheat in any way.

Justin Gatlin

#8. Down came the dry flakes, fat enough and heavy enough to crash like nickels on stone. It always surprised him, how quiet it was. Not like rain, but like a secret.

Toni Morrison

#9. If we're ever found out," he murmured in answer, "it could ruin us. And now we've got the added bonus of getting our
hearts broken if something goes wrong.

Abigail Roux

#10. I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

J.K. Rowling

#11. A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. Beyond the ocean and the world and the stars. You're mine beyond that, baby, and I'm yours.

Karina Halle

#13. Live your life with a smile regardless the circumstances.

Josh Thomson

#14. My only strength has always been the fact that I work hard and can take a lot physically.

Haruki Murakami

#15. I love my music and recording people.

Edwyn Collins

#16. The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Charles Morgan

#17. If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

Garth Brooks

#18. Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.

Cherise Sinclair

#19. Reason exercises merely the function of preserving order, is, so to say, the police in the region of art. In life it is mostly a cold arithmetician summing up our follies.

Heinrich Heine

#20. I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

Doug Aitken

#21. Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#22. To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.

A. Y. Jackson

#23. Very often human beings don't become available for the purposes of art until they have shaken off some of their dogged, self-preserving sanity.

Christopher Morley