Artful Quotes (page 94)

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• art
• science
• saying

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36) Jonathan Kellerman

• beauty
• feeling
• wonder

Jesus, I wondered, what do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I’m feeling now. Its so bad, its useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad... Elizabeth Wurtzel

• art
• little
• photography

To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. Elliott Erwitt

• time
• avoiding
• beautiful

I'm extremely profane, unconsciously so, when I see something great for the first time; I don't know why, but beauty and profanity are related to me in the same way. It may be that I want to think of art in the vernacular, but I have no control over what comes out of my mouth when my eyes take in great beauty...it might just be the reason I avoid going to museums with elderly ladies. Vincent Price

• art
• literature
• likeness

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. Joyce Carol Oates

• art
• passion
• making

The combination of passion and art is what makes someone a linchpin. Seth Godin

• art
• learning
• again

We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gaiety. Nathaniel Hawthorne

• self
• art
• joy

set me a task in witch i can put something of my very self and it is a task no longer, it is joy; it is art. Bliss Carman

• love
• happy
• art

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. Clive Barker

• art
• poetry
• distinctions

Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry. Nick Hornby

• art
• picture
• thoughts

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film. Akira Kurosawa

• music
• real
• art

I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with any of the guys at all. None of them liked art or music. They just wanted to fight and get laid. It was many years ago but it gave me this real hatred for the average American macho male. Kurt Cobain

• aesthetic
• kindness
• work

For me a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm. Vladimir Nabokov

• art
• drawing
• likeness

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace. Oscar Wilde

• jealous people
• angel
• old

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now, and the attacks are coming in thick. A lot of people are mad and jealous and bitter and I only hope they also can be heard by an expanding publishing program the size of Russia's. Because it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it HIS OWN WAY and then we'd have something... Jack Kerouac