Life Celebration Quotes
Abraham Lincoln
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
Alan Rickman
Alan Watts
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful drifting on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
Arthur Erickson
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
Bryant McGill
Carl Jung
What did you do as a child that made the hours pass like minutes? Therein lies the key to your earthly pursuits.
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
Carly Fiorina
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
Conrad Hall
Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.
Craig Bruce
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco
Frida Kahlo
I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.
I paint flowers so they will not die.
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Harriet Ward Beecher
Henry David Thoreau
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.
Henry Miller
Jack Kerouac
The only truth is music.
Why not keep this resource at your fingertips?
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James Whistler
Jean Cocteau
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Joan Miro
I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster
John Cleese
Nothing will stop you from being creative so effectively as the fear of making a mistake.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
Joseph Campbell
You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and it’s play instead of work.
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.
Kurt Vonnegut
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
Leonard Cohen
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo
My trade and art is to live.
Michel de Montaigne
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
Michelangelo
The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
The moment that you feel, just possibly, you are walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind, and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself...That is the moment, you might be starting to get it right.
Neil Gaiman
I'm very happy to hear that my work inspires writers and painters. It's the most beautiful compliment, the greatest reward. Art should always be an exchange.
Nick Cave
Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
Norah Jones
Pablo Picasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
Plato
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every artist was first an amateur.
You begin with the possibilities of the material.
Robert Rauschenberg
Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
All I owe the world is my art.
Sherman Alexie
Sir Isaac Newton
It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Vincent va Gogh
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.