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Art Life Quotes (page 2)

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life. W. Somerset Maugham
Lawrence Durrell quote: "Art like life is an open secret."
Art like life is an open secret. Lawrence Durrell
Oscar Wilde quote: "Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it..."
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. Oscar Wilde
Life eternal, this lady of thine hath a sore heart, and we cannot help her. Thou art help, O Mighty Love. Speak to her, and let her know thy will, and give her strength to do it, O Father of Jesus Christ, Amen. George MacDonald
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "Life isn't long enough for love and art."
Life isn't long enough for love and art. W. Somerset Maugham
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being. Carl Jung
Thomas Mann quote: "Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured..."
Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. Thomas Mann
John Irving quote: "Life is serious but art is fun!"
Life is serious but art is fun! John Irving
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored means you have no. Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes as bad as Achilles, who loves people and valiant art, which bores me. And... John Berryman
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. Boris Pasternak
Mario Vargas Llosa quote: "Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only..."
Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella."(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) Mario Vargas Llosa
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. Lewis Mumford
Evelyn de Morgan quote: "Art is eternal, but life is short."
Art is eternal, but life is short. Evelyn de Morgan
Gunter Grass quote: "Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises."
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. Gunter Grass
John W. Gardner quote: "Life is the art of drawing without an eraser."
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner

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