In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.

A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‚The Hornet’s Nest,‘ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

There’s a rebel lying deep in my soul.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

The soul is healed by being with children.

I didn’t know the term ‚synesthesia‘ until I was working on ‚Cruel Summer.‘ Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I’m watching a Wes Anderson movie, the colour palettes alone, and the way they’re painted, could be art. With music, you’re a little bit limited, of course, because it’s only audio.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

The ‚soul‘ is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

When you draw or paint a tree, you do not imitate the tree; you do not copy it exactly as it is, which would be mere photography. To be free to paint a tree or a flower or a sunset, you have to feel what it conveys to you: the significance, the meaning of it.