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Artful Quotes (page 63)

Louisa May Alcott quote: "Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. Louisa May Alcott
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect teh quality of the day--that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau
Pat Conroy quote: "There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make..."
There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. Pat Conroy
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to..."
Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that. Margaret Atwood
James Joyce quote: "To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could..."
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom. James Joyce
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Being content with what you have already is an art form that..."
Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else. Elizabeth Gilbert
Let us practice the fine art of making every work a priestly ministration. Let us believe that God is in all our simple deeds and learn to find Him there. Aiden Wilson Tozer
...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination. Patti Smith
Quotes about LifeTell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
David Foster Wallace quote: "I am about art here, not simple reproduction."
I am about art here, not simple reproduction. David Foster Wallace
Roberto Bolano quote: "God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to..."
God and chance belonged to art, eternity and labyrinths to science. Roberto Bolano
In the art of peace, a single cut of the sword summons up the wondrous powers of the universe. That one sword links the past, present, and future; it absorbs the universe. Time and space disappear. All of creation, from the distant past to the present moment, lives in the sword. All human existence flourishes right here in the sword you hold in your hands. You are now prepared for anything that may arise. Morihei Ueshiba
There is no literature and art without paranoia. Probably there would be even civilization. Paranoia is the world. It is the attempt to make sense of what has not. Thomas Pynchon
The whole human earth was bleeding. Time, buildings, routes, rain, erase the constellation of the crime, the fact is, this small planethas been covered a thousand times by blood, war or vengeance, ambush or battle, people fell, they were devoured, and later oblivion wiped cleaneach square meter: sometimesa vague, dishonest monument, other times a clause in bronze, and still later, conversations, births, townships, and then oblivion. What arts we have for exterminationand what science to... Pablo Neruda

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