In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
Interpretation
Art reflects the depth of human imagination and emotion.
This quote emphasizes the intrinsic connection between the heart and the hand in the creation of art. It suggests that the ability to create art is limited by one's imagination and emotional depth, highlighting the importance of inner feelings and creativity in the artistic process.
In practice
This quote can be used during an art exhibition to inspire viewers about the connection between emotion and creativity.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
The art has to make it on its own, without explanations, and itβs the same for poetry. If the poem or the painting has to be explained, then itβs a failure in communication.
I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'
I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil.
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic.
Poems and songs penned as an unstoppable outpouring of the heart take on a life of their own. They transcend the limits of nationality and time as they pass from person to person, from one heart to another.
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