Quote

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

— Franz Liszt

Sentiment: POSITIVE

←Previous Next→

✓Similar Perspectives

Serenity is the balance between good and bad, life and death, horrors and pleasures. Life is, as it were, defined by death. If there wasn't death of things, then there wouldn't be any life to celebrate.

— Norman Davies

I wish everybody finds the serenity that good, strong faith brings.

— Ann Jillian

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

— Andre Gide

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

— Boris Pasternak

Art is the path to being spiritual.

— Piet Mondrian

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

— Alain Badiou

In life eternal, there is perfect joy and light, without pain or torture, and there is communion with God Himself and His angels.

— Jan Hus

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

— David Guterson

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

— Sylvia Kristel

✗Opposing Perspectives

No opposing quotes found.