Marc Chagall Quotes

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

In that most magnificent place, the purest of all places-your heart, someone resides there who is your closest friend. There for you always. No cell phone required. No language required to communicate. All is there within you. Other parties have to end, but this one has the possibility of going on and on, for the rest of your life.

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.

Stained glass enabled the modern world.

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.

In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.

The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit. It is the spirit's ingenious memorandum to itself and the spirit sees itself in my body, just as I see my own face in a looking glass. My nerves reflect this. The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs if we are to see anything.

There is no country but the heart.

A dog could see your heart in your eyes, Budress told him, and dogs were drawn to our hearts.

I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.

To someone standing in the nave, looking down the length of the church toward the east, the round window would seem like a huge sun exploding into innumerable shards of gorgeous color.

I've got you deep in the heart of me.

Do not seek God in outer space-- Your heart is the only place in which to meet Him face to face.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

Kaz's wilder work captures the great beauty of the human heart and the natural world.

There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.

Your soul is the whole world.

How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

Yes, it's a competitive world, but where is your heart?

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.