Art Quote by Iris Murdoch Download Open image “The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.” — Iris Murdoch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Command Inspirational Sacred Waiting
“Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD” (Ps. 27:14), and “I wait for the LORD, my soul… — Kristen Feola Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, musicians of the world must come realise the potential of their calling. Like the shamans, we may serve as healers, metaphysicians, inciters, exciters,… — Kenny Werner Copy Share Image
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight. — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
“I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally. — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart. — John Vance Cheney Copy Share Image
Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You haven’t prepared yourself for worship if you just practice musical art” — LaMar Boschman Copy Share Image
The role of an artist is to awaken the deep life urge that is already in every person. — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
I think an artist who has it in their heart to do or say something, they'll say it. It's not something that's mandatory, but… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
Some of us must wait for the best human gifts until we come to heavenly places. Our natural desire for musical utterance is perhaps… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.” — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“Oh if only I could take my mother away and never know of these things again. But it was impossible, the machine would go… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image