Life Celebration Quotes
Agatha Christie
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Albert Einstein
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Camus
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Truly fertile music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a music conducive to dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate reason.
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Truly fertile music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a music conducive to dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate reason.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Aldous Huxley
Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
Alexander Pope
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
All nature is but art unknown to thee.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
One science only will one genius fit so vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Anaïs Nin
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Amy Lowell
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.
Andre Maurois
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
Aristophanes
To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Benedict Spinoza
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest. Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.
Benjamin Disraeli
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Beverly Sills
I think some young people want a deeper experience. Some people just wanna be hit over the head and, you know, if then they [get] hit hard enough maybe they'll feel something. You know? But some people want to get inside of something and discover, maybe, more richness. And I think it will always be the same; they're not going to be the great percentage of the people. A great percentage of the people don't want a challenge. They want something to be done to them - they don't want to participate. But there'll always be maybe 15% maybe, 15%, that desire something more, and they'll search it out - and maybe that's where art is, I think.
Bill Evans
I choose films for their artistic value. I don't need a mansion or a Jaguar. When I leave this Earth, I won't take any money with me. All I will leave behind will be my art.
Brad Renfro
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Benedict Spinoza
Charles Bukowski
If something burns your soul with fand desire it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
Charles de Lint
An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.
Charles Morgan
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
Charlie Chaplin
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe
Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise.
Christian Bale
My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
Clara Schumann
I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
Danny Boyle
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One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.
Danica McKellar
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert Lawrence
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
David Hockney
When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years.
Denis Diderot
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Denis Waitley
Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
Duke Ellington
People hate their own art because it looks like they made it. They think if they get better, it will stop looking like they made it. A better person made it. But there’s no level of skill beyond which you stop being you. You hate the most valuable thing about your art.
Elicia Donze
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
E. M. Forster
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Earl Wilson
An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Edgard Varese
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
Edvard Munch
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.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward Hopper
So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
Ellen Key
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
Emily Carr
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
Emir Kusturica
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Emmet Fox
Epicurus
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don’t forget to have art in your life – music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
Eric Carle
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
Emir Kusturica
The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
Eric Hoffer
Erich Fromm
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
Ernst Fischer
People need art in their houses. They don’t need Bed Bath and Beyond dentist-office art. They need weird stuff.
Ezra Croft
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
Ezra Pound
Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
Art is the proper task of life.
Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
Gordon Gee
Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
Hayao Miyazaki
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
Hedy Lamarr
I cry out for order and find it only in art.
Helen Hayes
Leonardo Da Vinci
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
Henri Matisse
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.
Henry A. Kissinger
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Honore de Balzac
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
Jack Nicholson
The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.
Jawaharial Nehru
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Jean Anouilh
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Johann Von Schiller
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
John Ruskin
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx
I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
Katharine Hepburn
The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
Keanu Reeves
Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Kurt Vonnegut
Leo Tolstoy
Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
Marcel Proust
Margaret Atwood
What matters is how the art makes you feel.
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Margot Fonteyn
I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.
Marilyn Manson
I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.
Mary Baker Eddy
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.
Max Eastman
Michel Foucault
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.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
Noam Chomsky
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Novalis
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
Og Mandino
Pablo Picasso
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith
Paul Cezanne
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.
Art does not reproduce what we see rather, it makes us see.
Paul Klee
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo Coelho
I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.
Pink
What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.
Robert Mapplethorpe
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
Russell Simmons
Salvador Dali
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
Simone Weil
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Thomas Merton
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
Thomas Wolfe
Vincent van Gogh
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
Wilson Mizner
