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.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I’d been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it’s environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this ‚ambient music.‘ But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

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.‘

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.

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

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

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.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

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

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

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

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.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.

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.

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

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.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

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.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

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.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?