Brigham Young Quotes

People are not going to give you a vision, but God can.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading.

I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great!

I found that there were things that God could reveal to me that I could never get myself physically.

I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.

My friend, God wants to throw a beam of light on your path today.

When you feel pure intelligence flowing into you, it may give you sudden strokes of ideas, so that by noticing it, you may find it fulfilled the same day or soon; (i.e.) those things that were presented unto your minds by the Spirit of God, will come to pass; and thus by learning the Spirit of God and understanding it, you may grow into the principle of revelation, until you become perfect in Christ Jesus.

A woman artist could be one of those intuitive geniuses [who] have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience.

Where God gives vision He always provides provision

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

People who make good music aren't necessarily nice people.

God makes many poets, but he only gives utterance to a few.

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which they could express that which has been created by God.

Art is the Godhead as revealed in the works of man.

Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature: as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

The vision that God gives is not some unattainable castle in the sky, but a vision of what God wants you to be down here.

Scriptures are like packets of light that illuminate our minds and give place to guidance and inspiration from on high.

Inspiration: A peculiar effect of divine flatulence emitted by the Holy Spirit which hisses into the ears of a few chosen of God.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.