Quotes About Spirit

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a different matter. That is therapy. Psychology is the Art of finding the gold of the spirit.

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.

One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts.

With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive.

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Art is the conveyance of spirit by means of matter.

The highest art form of all is a human being in control of himself and his airplane in flight, urging the spirit of a machine to match his own.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

O gentle vision in the dawn: My spirit over faint cool water glides, Child of the day, To thee; And thou art drawn By kindred impulse over silver tides The dreamy way To me.

There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of fun.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.

It seems to me that art has lost its connection to spirit.

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!