To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.
As we tap into the deep sources of bodily wisdom through creative art expression,we dance the renewal, recreation, and healing of ourselves and our world.
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.
It's nothing short of a whole new brain... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life.
Throw away those little pieces of paper. Get yourself a big, beautiful canvas. Bring from this nature the most beautiful colors. Find the serene scene within. Find the joy in each corner of your life. Sit still and feel what is within you. Sit still and paint like you have never painted before.
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of a great individual, a wonder with canoe, axe and fish line.
You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.
Good art looks new because the artist has recombined something old to make something better.
Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss!
Painting transports me into another dimension which, quite literally, refreshes parts of the soul which other activities can't reach.
Matisse renovates rather than innovates.
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.
I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.
Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.
For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
To think that the affairs of this life always remain in the same state is a vain presumption; indeed they all seem to be perpetually changing and moving in a circular course. Spring is followed by summer, summer by autumn, and autumn by winter, which is again followed by spring, and so time continues its everlasting round. But the life of man is ever racing to its end, swifter than time itself, without hope of renewal, unless in the next that is limitless and infinite.
Astonish me in the morning!
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