Quotes
Quotes about Art
You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Life is just part of the big picture.
Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Life can be seen your eyes but it is not fully appreciated until it is seen through your heart.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way. Morrie Schwartz, in "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom -Christopher Morley.
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore.
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.
Life is the art of drawing sufficent conclusions from insufficient premises.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
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. Tell 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.
Believe in life's message; follow your hearts desired fate.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. -Unknown.
I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.
There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover; Therefore are the lindens ever Chosen seats of each fond lover.
. . . Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
