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Artful Quotes (page 96)

So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my sufferance, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. Jack Kerouac
Oscar Wilde quote: "How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything..."
How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything but your art? Oscar Wilde
Aristotle quote: "Those who educate children well are more to be honored than..."
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. Aristotle
There are places that we are welcomed," said Triolet, "and places where we are regarded as a noxious weed, or as a disease, something immediately to be quarantined and eliminated. But where does contagion end and art begin? Neil Gaiman
Plainly, such an approach does not exclude other ways of trying to comprehend the world. Someone committed to it (as I am) can consistently believe (as I do) that we learn much more of human interest about how people think and feel and act by reading novels or studying history than from all of naturalistic psychology, and perhaps always will; similarly, the arts may offer appreciation of the heavens to which astrophysics cannot aspire. Noam Chomsky
In the medieval tradition, Beksinski seems to believe art to be a forewarning about the fragility of the fles? whatever pleasures we know are doomed to peris? thus, his paintings manage to evoke at once the process of decay and the ongoing struggle for life. They hold within them a secret poetry, stained with blood and rust. Guillermo del Toro
The real difference between God and human beings, he thought, was that God cannot stand continuance. No sooner has he created a season of a year, or a time of the day, than he wishes for something quite different, and sweeps it all away. No sooner was one a young man, and happy at that, than the nature of things would rush one into marriage, martyrdom or old age. And human beings cleave to the existing state of things. All their lives they are striving to hold the moment fast....Their art... Isak Dinesen
It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness. David O. McKay
William Shakespeare quote: "Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my..."
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood. William Shakespeare
The older I get, the more I see how much motivations matter. The Zune was crappy because the people at Microsoft don’t really love music or art the way we do. We won because we personally love music. Walter Isaacson
No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. John Ruskin
Miyamoto Musashi quote: "The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them"
The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them Miyamoto Musashi
Alexander Dumas quote: "Pain, thou art not an evil"
Pain, thou art not an evil Alexander Dumas
William Shakespeare quote: "thou art the best o' the cut-throats"
thou art the best o' the cut-throats William Shakespeare
Two things significantly distinguish human beings from the other animals; an interest in the past and the possibility of language. Brought together they make a third: Art. The invisible city not calculated to exist. Beyond the lofty pretensions of the merely ceremonial, long after the dramatic connivings of plitical life, like it or not, it remains. Time past eternally present and undestroyed. Jeanette Winterson

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