Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.
– JorisKarl Huysmans
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- The decent, strong person had to do decent, strong things like love unlovable people and keep peace even when it wasn’t easy. – Mary Connealy
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Prayer and faith are bound together. Faith is the inspiration for prayer, and prayer is the expression of that faith. – Elizabeth George
- It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us. – Terence McKenna
- It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being. – Marcus Aurelius
- Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation). – Dada Bhagwan
- Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. – Joseph Murphy
- Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
- Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
- Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
- You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. – Seth Godin
- Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. – Edward Hirsch
- I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for ‘create art’ and see if it fits). – Richie Norton
- Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own. – Sarah Cross
- Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith
- By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. – Angelus Silesius
- To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart. – Aberjhani
- We all care intensely for the narrative of our own life and very much want it to be a good story, with a decent hero. – Daniel Kahneman
- A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets. – George Orwell
- I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them. – Aldo Leopold
- God, now she knew what decent men felt like, the disquiet before taking someone for their first time. – JR Ward
- I started to find out the path to the HELL in a decent way. Then I realized that now it’s been called SOCIETY, and I’m already part of it. – Balakoteswara Panchakshari
- Then I drop to my knees because I can’t find a decent enough reason not to, because reluctance rarely stands a chance against repeated behavior. – Kris Kidd
- A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. – Steven J Carroll
- But as long as you know you’re nobody special, you’ll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another. – CS Lewis
- No decent man would ever strike a woman or a child. – Ellen J Barrier
- When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it’s a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there’s no decent argument left in the armoury. – Alex Morritt
- What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow. – AA Milne
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. – HL Mencken
- She’s my hero. Everything good and decent that I am is because of my mother. – Katie Ashley
- And the wind shall say: ‘Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a thousand lost golf balls. – TS Eliot
- Sarcasm is wasted on those who haven’t had a decent night’s sleep, my darling. – Tracy Guzeman
- Writing is hard work. Attempting to write a decent story is friggin exhausting! – Veronica Purcell