Art Quote by Mak_786

Before the work of grace the heart is ‘stony.’ It can do no more than a stone can do to please God.

— John Owen

“Hearts made of stone don't bend, they crack when pushed too far.”

— H.M. Ward

“The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Even God does not like the hardness of Tongue and Heart. That's why he Made them BONELESS.

— Ritzy

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

— John Ruskin

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It…

— Angela Carter

To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

— Li Shan

only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.

— William Butler Yeats

“God is not interested in your art but, your heart.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

— Malcolm De Chazal

Art is Nature made by Man / To Man the interpreter of God.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton