Quotes About Renewal

If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirts.

In Spring! In the creation of art it must be as it is in Spring!

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

I am for an art of things lost or thrown away. . . I am for an art that one smokes like a cigarette. . . I am for an art that flutters like a flag.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.

True revolutions in art restore more than they destroy.

New arts destroy the old.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

It just feels like meeting him again was like seeing a blank paper ready to be sketched, a different idea to be drawn.

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

if nothing endswhere do we begin?

Change is never a loss - it is change only.

All I know is that we are loaded down with old and stale stuff - habits, customs, old attitudes already dead and gone.

I know that I too could try a story out, rebuild mine, make it live again several minutes before the full of the day, the sun, the city. But I haven't the strength, stupidly. I rise and carry on. One more time.

He had enormous compassion for the suffering of others, which often came from having suffered oneself. But he was starting a new life in Denver, and opening his eyes to life again.

As a Christian, you are not the sum of your past. You are a brand-new person with a brand-new beginning.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

Twice each year, take a one-week break from social media. I recommend the last week of the summer and the final week of the year—this will recharge your batteries at convenient times and restore your perspective. Then slowly reintroduce yourself to it all with fresh eyes. (If you're feeling really adventurous, join me once a year for the month of August, when I shut off all my devices and stop reading the news entirely.