#art

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."

"Your personal truth is your gift to the world."

"Our humor turns our anger into a fine art."

"Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas."

"Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?"

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

"I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot."

"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

"The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying."

"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."

"Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you."

"I make art for one person and one person only. And as soon as I find that one person, I sure hope he has a lot of wall space, because he’ll be getting a lot of art from me."

"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."

"I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

"The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success."

"You don’t make art out of good intentions."