Artful Quotes (page 127)

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• art
• purpose
• question

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. James Baldwin

• art
• thinking
• comedy

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist. Craig Ferguson

• art
• work
• works

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. Francis Schaeffer

• art
• contemplate
• contemplation

There is no art without contemplation. Robert Henri

• life
• art
• fun

Life is serious but art is fun! John Irving

• hard
• hard work
• writing

With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say. Gustave Flaubert

• art
• sell
• ifs

If it sells, it's art. Frank Lloyd Wright

• art
• knowledge
• poetry

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. George Eliot

• play
• serious
• kindness

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the... C. S. Lewis

• love
• fire
• end

writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it. James Lee Burke

• art
• warts
• rags

Thou art a very ragged Wart. William Shakespeare

• look
• life
• art

What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it. Jodi Picoult

• missing
• lies
• saying

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Douglas Adams

• love
• art
• hot love

Knowing hot to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape. Bell Hooks

• art
• seeing
• locally

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. Vladimir Nabokov