Artful Quotes (page 118)

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• time
• rock and roll
• chance

I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished ... art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm right here right now and I want now to be the Golden Age ...if only each generation would realise that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive ... the time to flower is now. Patti Smith

• art
• lies
• things

There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies Jeanette Winterson

• appearance
• common
• best

Everything he wanted was comprised moreover in a single boon--the common unattainable art of taking things as they came. He appeared to himself to have given his best years to an active appreciation of the way they didn't come; but perhaps--as they would seemingly here be things quite other--this long ache might at last drop to rest. Henry James

• art
• peace
• firstly

Peace is first of all the art of being. Henri Nouwen

• love
• art
• work

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. David Gerrold

• change
• art
• doubt

In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me:"Live in the layers, not on the litter."Though I lack the art to decipher it. no doubt the next chapter in my book of transformations is already written. I am not done with my changes Stanley Kunitz

• single
• change
• manly

Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills. Jorge Luis Borges

• art
• bad
• pop art

Before pop art, there was such a thing as bad taste. Now there's kitsch, schlock, camp, and porn. Don DeLillo

• thanks
• thankful
• space

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance. Marcel Proust

• art
• work
• little

But of works of art little can be said. Robert Louis Stevenson

• busy
• business
• art

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy. W. Somerset Maugham

• art
• bodies
• body

Each body has its art... Gwendolyn Brooks

• change
• art
• science

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will. Aleister Crowley

• art
• touching
• fear

Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you. Evelyn Waugh

• art
• die
• manly

What art thou Faustus, but a man condemned to die? Christopher Marlowe