#spirit

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#artist #contact #creates #creation #different

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body. ↗

— Saadi

#belly #body #empty #full #spirit

You can kill the body but not the spirit. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#kill #spirit #you

Never lose this innovation spirit. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#lose #never #spirit

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ↗

— Alan Patrick Herbert

#conception #cross #having #lack #living

One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say. ↗

— Hope Solo

#free-spirited #individuality #leadership #outspoken #resiliency

Now Herod was an active man, and soon found proper materials for his active spirit to work upon. ↗

— Flavius Josephus

#found #his #man #materials #now

God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#hydrogen #matter #much #oxygen #spirit

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit. ↗

— George Ripley

#body #shining #similitude #soul #spirit

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. ↗