Quotes About Power

That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.

A community united by the ideals of compassion and creativity has incredible power. Art of all kinds---music, literature, traditional arts, visual arts---can lift a community.

Obstacles aren't there to stop you. They are put there to show you how powerful you can feel when you run right over them.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

Art has such a transforming power. It can really take over your mind once you allow it to.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.

Martial arts is the kind of action that does tie in well to the supernatural.

Blest is that government where no art thrives.

O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art.

Power doesn't always roar...The art of exerting power is an art used in doses - the more hidden it is the more effective.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.

I'm going to punch words in your ear holes.

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

The dictators, commanders or emperors who want to conquer the world soon realize that the world has already been conquered by the artists and their arts!

Art is a product of the intuitive—the most powerful instrument within us. The intuitive is the most accurate sense we have.

A great artist is conscious of the talent and the power he possesses, otherwise he would not see his faults, and so would not be able to improve.

- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Man in Canadian art is rarely in command of his environment or ever at home in it.