I have yet to discover a dish that will not come alive in the presence of champagne.
A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.
Looking at art is one way of listening to God.
All great art is a visual form of prayer.
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
There is no life without work, anxieties or tensions. Peace is not found in avoiding these but in understanding them and controlling their force.
Great art changes you.
Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.
People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity there was a unique beauty of genuine depth.
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark Water, Jennifer Connelly's mere presence in a film guarantees that things will turn out badly for the male lead, as Connelly is always cast as the Angel of Death. Fun to hang out with, great eyes, amazing eyebrows, but the Angel of Death.