Art Quote by Philip Graham Ryken Download Open image ““Goodness is both an ethical and an esthetic standard.”” — Philip Graham Ryken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Beauty Character Ethics
“Aesthetic sense is the twin of one's instinct for self-preservation and is more reliable than ethics.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“For, in movie logic, aesthetics has the authority of ethics: to be less than beautiful is sad, but to be willfully less than beautiful… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions,… — Geoffrey Wood Copy Share Image
“Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Without ethics, a human race falls to inhumanity. Ethics determines your real value in this world and the hereafter.” — Nazim Ambalath Copy Share Image
It is when we create things for God's sake that our work most clearly promotes His glory, rather than threatening to compete with it.… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer wisely wrote, “If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The fruit of the Spirit is the natural produce of his gracious inward influence, the spontaneous and inevitable result of his uniting us to… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
To be pleasing to God, art must be true as well as good. Truth has always been one important criterion for art. Art is… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The content of worship comes from the Bible, the goal of worship is to give praise to God, and the basis for worship is… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
To identify your own idols, ask questions like these: What things take the place of God in my life? Where do I find my… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
“God has put his love into our lives by pouring his Spirit into our hearts. So when we desire to love Jesus more, we… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
“The Christian worldview is liturgical as well as cerebral; it culminates with an everlasting crescendo of praise.” — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, the reason the church fails to have a more positive, transforming influence on our culture is that we do not fully grasp… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is to help… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
God's careful instructions for building the tabernacle in Exodus 31 remind us that his perfection sets the standard for whatever we create in his… — Philip Graham Ryken 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