Jim Dine Quotes

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy.

Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.

I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

Anyone knows that my music isn't just centered around sex. It's thought-evoking and feeling-evoking.

Because the beauty of songs, I think, is if you do it right a lot of people can relate to it in their own way and make their own meaning out of things.

I wrote 'We Got the Beat,' which is a fun song, and people equate us with fun, but there's so much more to us than that.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals.

Making art is an act of faith.