“Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.” HumansArtStoriesHateEvilJesusArt IsBuiltThemeGood And EvilLife And DeathUglinessLove And Hate Author:John Ortberg
“I've always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn't have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.” StoriesKidsPainSufferingBuiltDepthContemporaryStorytellingPain And SufferingFunny StoryContemporary Music Author:Nickolas Ashford
“I like the idea that within the structure of the song, some kind of built-in improvisation keeps them fragile and in their moment, so that I'm not projecting so much, so that my perception of the song doesn't interfere with what its real body is. Sometimes it's like telling a story that I heard in passing, and I don't want it to become completely mine.” WantKindIdeasRealSometimesMomentsStoriesBodySongHeardMinesPerceptionBuiltStructurePassingPassingsFragileInterfereImprovisation Author:Ryan Adams
“Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.” EndsStoriesThreeProcessPerfectPaintingBuiltDepthUnconsciousPathwaysDreamworks Author:Billy Cannon
“Art consists precisely in making us admire old stories, charming us with them eternally, as Nature charms with her eternal sun, her ancient earth, and her men built all on the same pattern, and all animated by the same feelings.” MenArtStoriesFeelingsEarthSunEternalBuiltAncientPatternsAdmireCharmCharmingAnimated Author:Marie Bashkirtseff
“Being under the microscope meant I was never given any slack. I still managed to screw up plenty in life, mind you, but in the things I really cared about - the legal work, or the stories I was telling as a writer, or the office I built in government - I wasn't left a lot of margin for error. It's kept me driven.” MindStillsStoriesGovernmentLeftGivenOfficeBuiltErrorsDrivenPlentyScrewsMarginsScrew UpsMicroscopes Author:Ronan Farrow
“The last element in drama is high stakes. War, of course, is life and death - survival, not only for the story's characters, but often for the society itself. That's why I'm drawn to stories that are built around wars, even if they're not technically "war stories."” IfsWarCharacterStoriesLastsCoursesDramaElementsSurvivalBuiltLife And DeathStakesWar Stories Author:Steven Pressfield