Hayao Miyazaki Quotes

Art is the highest form of hope.

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Artwork is a representation of our devotion to life.

Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Yes, Ethiopia yet shall stretch Her bleeding hands abroad; Her crying agony has reached The burning throne of God. Redeemed from dust and free from chains Her sons shall lift their eyes; From cloud capped hills and verdant plains Shall shouts of triumph rise

I'm all for the banalities of life and humiliation and everyday tragedies, but I also think people have big moments, and they have bigness in them.

Hate, hatred for yourself, for other people, will confine you, but love can set you free.

For every laugh, there should be a tear.

Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

The theater, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history.

Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

It's important to be yourself. What art does for everyone, helps you understand yourself and in a distilled way, whether it's a painting or a scene in acting or a joke. It distills something about everyday life that can be important to you.

Go forth! Carry the good tidings to the poor, bind the wounds of the brokenhearted, proclaim freedom to slaves, open the doors of prisons to those within, promulgate the year of the Lord's mercy... Bring into the world the hope of God, which is Christ the Lord Who rose from the dead and lives and reigns forever.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.