Art Quote by William Morris Download Open image “The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.” — William Morris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Desire Desires Hand Fire Fires Soul Godhead Fires Hands Heart Heart Desire Hearts desire Refrain Refrains Godhead Soul Soul Attains Spirituality
God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism. — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned What the spirit seeks The mind will follow When… — Martin L. Gore Copy Share Image
To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
“No hells or heavens has Mirdad to offer you, but Holy Understanding which lifts you far beyond the fire of any hell and the… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
“The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the… — edna st. vincent millay Copy Share Image
The head best leaves to the heart what the heart alone divines. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“Do the gods light this fire in our hearts or does each man's mad desire become his god?” — Virgil Copy Share Image
Head, you may think; heart, you may feel; But hand, you shall work alway! — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted… — James E. Talmage Copy Share Image
“You are provided with hands, but you decide how to employ them. Some use their hands to provide a lover's caress, chisel a sculpture,… — Joshua Emmet Copy Share Image
I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have… — William Morris Copy Share Image
...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse,… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Do not be deceived by the outside appearance of order in our plutocratic society. It fares with it as it does with the older… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few. — William Morris Copy Share Image
I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age. — William Morris Copy Share Image
In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Now let us go, love, down the winding stair, With fingers intertwined...” — William Morris Copy Share Image
Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism; when that ceases to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
“October O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented haze… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed. — William Morris Copy Share Image
“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” — William Morris 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
