Gary Holland famous quotes

Art is about communication. Art that lasts through the ages works symbolically. It triggers feelings and experiences that we've all had.
-- Gary Holland

#Art #Communication #Feelings

I've never met an artist whose spirit didn't want to fly.
-- Gary Holland

#Artist #Want #Spirit

It's not our art, but our heart that's on display.
-- Gary Holland

#Art #Heart

Every child is a deliberate, passionate creation of God. If you doubt that, just look into their eyes. You will find a gentle little spirit who hungers for life - and for your love.
-- Gary Holland

#Children #Eye #Doubt

I wake up every morning excited. Rather than become complacent or overwhelmed, I've made a choice for life - and I can do something about it.
-- Gary Holland

#Morning #Commitment #Choices

Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.
-- Gary Holland

#Art #Communication #Creating

I've come out of seeing death and chosen to focus on the life that's sprouting everywhere, like flowers. And I want to help feed the flowers.
-- Gary Holland

#Flower #Focus #Want

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.
-- Gary Holland

#Art #Powerful #Believe

The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.
-- Gary Holland

#Art #Dark #Sunshine

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

How aware were photographers in the past of other visual arts? "No photographer of any distinction at all could approach his work without some awareness of what was going on in other visual media, and for that matter neither the painter nor the draughtsman could ignore photography."

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

We brought the religious leaders and the secular development workers together in one room. We asked the religious leaders what are your reservations about development workers? And we asked the development workers, what are your reservations about religious leaders? It turns out that most of the problems are not really problems at all, but rather misunderstandings, misconceptions, and mis-communications.

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

When you cannot rejoice in feelings, circumstances or conditions, rejoice in the Lord.

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

I'm feeling how profoundly my family disappointed me and in the end how I retreated, how I became nothing, because that was much less risky than attempting to be something, to be anything in the face of such contempt.

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.

I will never forget the feeling of walking into my home, a place that while drifting helpless in the middle of the Indian Ocean I wondered if I would ever see again.