Quotes About Compassion

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.

Art thou angry with him whose armpits stink? Art thou angry with him whose mouth smells foul?

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art.

What can art really do in the face of atrocity?

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

People in misery is what most important in art.

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.

Selfless giving is the art of living.

The highest art one can learn is the art of loving, and that the ultimate creativity and the highest art are born out of a knack - meditation.

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront.

... one of art photography's most vigorous enterprises--[is] concentrating on victims, on the unfortunate--but without the compassionate purpose that such a project is expected to serve.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

It's hard to tell what's true compassion, when it's dressed up in hair and nails and fashion.

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.

The arts and humanities are vastly more important in troubled times.

You can create art that makes people feel better.

Art curates compassion. Art to me breaks down walls and allows us to step into somebody else's shoes.