Bethlehem Quote by Craig D. Lounsbrough

“He did not begin by tearing down, or by painting so intense a picture of misery and injustice that you burned to change the…

— Dorothy Day

“I was so thankful He gave me this chance to enter a painting, for painting was my weakness. If I could do only two…

— R.A. Rooney

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“The temptation To take the precious things we have apart To see how they work Must be resisted for they never fit together again.…

— Billy Bragg

“My earnest wish is to paint in true colors the goodness of God to me, and the depth of my own ingratitude”

— Madame Guyon

“I decided I would fill the emptiness in me with God and with paint.”

— Kimberly Novosel

“Yes, he remembered it perfectly. He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain young, and the portrait grow old; that his…

— Oscar Wilde

“If you throw even a cursory glance into the past, at the life which lies behind you, not even recalling its most vivid moments,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

“You are the artist of your existence, my dear. So color the canvas of your destiny and mold the shape of your reality. Never…

— Becca Lee

“At times like this you desperately need Art. You seek to reconnect with your spiritual illusions, and you wish fervently that something might rescue…

— Muriel Barbery

“Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in…

— Vincent Van Gogh