Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence. Votes: 0
The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt. Votes: 0
Art supplies constantly to contemplation what nature seldom affords in concrete experience - the union of life and peace. Votes: 0
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life. Votes: 0
Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art. Votes: 0
Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums. Votes: 0
Desire is the motivating force behind all progress and advancement in science, art, industry and in all phases of life. Votes: 0
Art, like religion, arises from the spirit, but alas, the formalizing of spiritual life all too often ends in hypocrisy. Votes: 0
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious. Votes: 0
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. Votes: 0
Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. Votes: 0
I'm a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! Votes: 0
The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art. Votes: 0
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. Votes: 0
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable. Votes: 0
Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form. Votes: 0
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life. Votes: 0
Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming. Votes: 0
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets. Votes: 0
Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed. Votes: 0
The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life... Votes: 0
Thou Art Humanity: all created by one origin, Adam and Eve___ noble fabrics of this glorious life and its wondrous weave. Votes: 0
How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance. Votes: 0
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally. Votes: 0
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. Votes: 0
Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall. Votes: 0
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life. Votes: 0
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. Votes: 0
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. Votes: 0
I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing. Votes: 0
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. Votes: 0
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness. Votes: 0
My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never. Votes: 0
Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter. Votes: 0
Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. Votes: 0
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. Votes: 0
This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. Votes: 0
My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don't have the luxury of experiencing in real life. Votes: 0
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it. Votes: 0
I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation. Votes: 0
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. Votes: 0
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life. Votes: 0
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed. Votes: 0
Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. Votes: 0
There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. Votes: 0
I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic. Votes: 0
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction. Votes: 0
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth! Votes: 0
Art...must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. Votes: 0
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life. Votes: 0
There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life. Votes: 0
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance. Votes: 0
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos. Votes: 0
Death is no enemy, but the foundation of gratitude, sympathy, and art. Of all life's pleasures, only love owes no debt to death. Votes: 0
You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. Votes: 0
The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. Votes: 0
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life. Votes: 0
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. Votes: 0
Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. Votes: 0
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate. Votes: 0
If you schlep a shit job everyday, keep and feed a little secret life--whether it's writing, art, running, music, your thoughts. It's yours. Votes: 0
Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art. Votes: 0
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. Votes: 0
In order to lead a fascinating life, one brimming with art, music, intrigue, and romance, you must surround yourself with precisely those things. Votes: 0
Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy. Votes: 0
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art. Votes: 0
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. Votes: 0
The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever. Votes: 0
The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry. Votes: 0
Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song. Votes: 0
I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life. Votes: 0
The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty ⦠for a slice of real life, thereâs always the Kessler. Votes: 0
All changes pass me like a dream, I neither sing nor pray; And thou art like the poisonous tree That stole my life away. Votes: 0
The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. Votes: 0
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. Votes: 0
Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set. Votes: 0
Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. Votes: 0
Your life is the manifestation of your dream; it is an art. You can change your life anytime if you aren't enjoying the dream. Votes: 0
Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist. Votes: 0
Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works. Votes: 0
Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination. Votes: 0
Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life. Votes: 0
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. Votes: 0
Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art. Votes: 0
Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process. Votes: 0
God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. Votes: 0
As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. Votes: 0
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. Votes: 0
Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. Votes: 0
There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction. Votes: 0
Certainly, I devote my energy to both telling my personal life story and seeking self- obliteration. However, I will not destroy myself through art. Votes: 0
Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking. Votes: 0
Chiropractic embraces the science of life, the knowledge of how organisms act in health and disease, and also the art of adjusting the neuroskeleton. Votes: 0
Dance, theatre, etc. as art, will disappear along with the dominating 'expression' of tragedy and harmony: the movement of life itself will become harmonious. Votes: 0
Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. Votes: 0
All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life. Votes: 0
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not. Votes: 0
Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee. Votes: 0
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience. Votes: 0
Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness. Votes: 0
In my art I have tried to explain to myself life and its meaning. I have also tried to help others to clarify their lives. Votes: 0
Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life. Votes: 0
Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. Votes: 0
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Votes: 0
I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. Votes: 0
I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better. Votes: 0
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Votes: 0
What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art. Votes: 0
All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does. Votes: 0
Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again. Votes: 0
Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine. Votes: 0
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. Votes: 0
There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately. Votes: 0
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life. Votes: 0
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments. Votes: 0
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. Votes: 0
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty. Votes: 0
Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives. Votes: 0
The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life. Votes: 0
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life. Votes: 0
Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history. Votes: 0
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Votes: 0
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. Votes: 0
There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions. Votes: 0
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. Votes: 0
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities? Votes: 0
The beauty of reality-based art - art underwritten by reality hunger - is that it's perfectly situated between life itself and (unattainable) "life as art". Votes: 0
It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless. Votes: 0
Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice. Votes: 0
If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. Votes: 0
I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life. Votes: 0
I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me. Votes: 0
After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art. Votes: 0
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. Votes: 0
Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. Votes: 0
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. Votes: 0
The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. Votes: 0
I believe art should be an integral part of life. I try to give my work an almost magical energy that makes the viewer feel good. Votes: 0
There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. Votes: 0
To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life. Votes: 0
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art. Votes: 0
Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. Votes: 0
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Votes: 0
If art were to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. Votes: 0
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful. Votes: 0
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. Votes: 0
One of the most important things I've learned about acting is that you can't separate how you live your life and how you practice your art. Votes: 0
You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure of painting. Votes: 0
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. Votes: 0
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. Votes: 0
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. Votes: 0
In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee. Votes: 0
Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves. Votes: 0
Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being. Votes: 0
We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form Votes: 0
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life. Votes: 0
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. Votes: 0
Science is concerned about quantity; religion is concerned about quality. Religion is concerned with the art of how to live life and how to die life. Votes: 0
We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder. Votes: 0
You can't control life. It doesn't wind up perfectly. Only-only art you can control. Art and masturbation. Two areas in which I am an absolute expert. Votes: 0
Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself. Votes: 0
Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life. Votes: 0
The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life. Votes: 0
Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement. Votes: 0
However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living! Votes: 0
I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's. Votes: 0
If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess. Votes: 0
Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life. Votes: 0
I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer? Votes: 0
The worst in life, we are told, is compatible with the best in art. So too the worst in life is compatible with the best in humour. Votes: 0
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Votes: 0
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent. Votes: 0
Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life. Votes: 0
Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... Votes: 0
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own. Votes: 0
Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. Votes: 0
my child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life... 2 things you need... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one. Votes: 0
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. Votes: 0
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. Votes: 0
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. Votes: 0
Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture. Votes: 0
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise. Votes: 0
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing. Votes: 0
I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life. Votes: 0
The world is full of paradoxes and life is full of opposites. The art is to embrace the opposites, accommodate the paradoxes and live with a smile. Votes: 0
INSTRUCTORS CAN impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life. Votes: 0
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Votes: 0
We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art. Votes: 0
The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art. Votes: 0
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Votes: 0
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax. Votes: 0
The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting and powerful emotion. Votes: 0
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art. Votes: 0
Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar ... Votes: 0
Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life? Votes: 0
All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. Votes: 0
Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes. Votes: 0
If I'm going to be anything more than average, if anyone is going to remember me, then I need to go further, in art, in life, in everything! Votes: 0
Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art. Votes: 0
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum. Votes: 0
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting. Votes: 0
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument. Votes: 0
Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art. Votes: 0
I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle. Votes: 0
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside. Votes: 0
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece. Votes: 0
Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life. Votes: 0
I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society. Votes: 0
Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it. Votes: 0
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map to self discovery. Votes: 0
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being. Votes: 0
Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright. Votes: 0
As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything. Votes: 0
You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul. Votes: 0
Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art. Votes: 0
Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling. Votes: 0
I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general. Votes: 0
Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do. Votes: 0
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise. Votes: 0
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. Votes: 0
In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature. Votes: 0
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life. Votes: 0
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. Votes: 0
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life. Votes: 0
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset. Votes: 0
I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life. Votes: 0
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance. Votes: 0
When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it. Votes: 0
I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? Votes: 0
Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. Votes: 0
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life. Votes: 0
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. Votes: 0
A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life. Votes: 0
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. Votes: 0
My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition. Votes: 0
From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. Votes: 0
That is art: to give all you have. And what have you? Your life - nothing more. And to give life means to feel life throughout your whole being. Votes: 0
I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people. Votes: 0
I lived in the world of poetry and ideas. I thought life was all about art and philosophy. In the military, I suddenly found out about the real world. Votes: 0
I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others. Votes: 0
I know how art has come in and really changed my life, so to give these children that opportunity just to come into contact with art - that's wonderful. Votes: 0
Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint. Votes: 0
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life. Votes: 0
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another. Votes: 0
Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot. Votes: 0
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. Votes: 0
Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting. Votes: 0
...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. Votes: 0
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it. Votes: 0
Like surgeons trying to save a life, the conservators and preservers at New York City museums dedicate themselves to ensuring the longevity of works of art for public view. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art. Votes: 0
My cloud photographs are equivalents of my most profound life experiences, my basic philosophy of life. All art is an equivalent of the artistâs most profound life experiences. Votes: 0
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. Votes: 0
Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times. Votes: 0
Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all. Votes: 0