Top 22 Rookmaaker Hans Quotes
#1. Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.
Hans Rookmaaker
#2. Art cannot be used to show the validity of Christianity; it should rather be the reverse.
Hans Rookmaaker
#3. I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort of flipside to that. 'Reckoner' is my favorite, just my favorite Radiohead song. That, 'Idioteque,' and 'Pyramid Song' are my top three.
Phoebe Tonkin
#4. How can you say that modern art is ugly,when you worship the Lord in a building painted like this?
Hans Rookmaaker
#5. It's a gloomy thing, however, to talk about one's own past, with the day breaking.
Charles Dickens
#6. I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat. I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
Agnes Smedley
#8. Her heart was beating appreciably faster, and she took more rapid breaths, but she was enjoying herself. Adventuresses are born, not made.
Kerry Greenwood
#9. I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.
Eric Lefkofsky
#10. What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the understanding of reality it reflects.
Hans Rookmaaker
#11. By means of the iconic, artists express their view of reality and show their understanding of the structure of reality. They see what they know and bring this into their paintings ... They always give us more than the facts, more than the eye can see.
Hans Rookmaaker
#12. Get a woman to smile, and she will like you; get her to laugh, and she will desire you; get her to blush, and she will court you; get her to melt, and she will marry you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#13. Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.
Saint Augustine
#14. Although the United States, with its unit banking laws, had thousands of bank failures, Canada, which permitted branch banking, didn't have a single failure during the Great Depression.
Jim Powell
#15. Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.
Hans Rookmaaker
#16. Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.
Hans Rookmaaker
#17. Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners ... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.
Melissa McCarthy
#18. Our world has changed for better or for worse. It is for us to find truth and beauty for today, constantly re-applying the truth of God's word to our own time and our contemporary situation.
Hans Rookmaaker
#19. We are at home here. Alienation is unnecessary. Contact with reality at a deep level is part of the Christian's life. He enters into reality, rather than escaping from it. The flight from reality is a mark of Eastern and classical mysticism, not of Christianity.
Hans Rookmaaker
#22. Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.
Hans Rookmaaker
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