Quotes of: Art-history Keyword

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

The Art of Literature

Every situation is of man's making and can only contain what man contains.

The Art of the Novel

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Wale

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Wole Soyinka

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Yoko Ono

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Zach Braff

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

On the Significance of Science and Art

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

The Lost Art of Gratitude

A day is too precious a treasure to forfeit.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

Think most of what matters. Think less of what doesn't.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

One of the best ways to support the development of patience is to cultivate happiness with yourself.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

Patience is a natural consequence of the cultivation of compassion & love, for ourselves and all beings.

Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

Torah: The Five Books of Moses

Jefferson was ambivalent about executive power – until he bore executive responsibility.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

A politician's task was to bring reality and policy into the greatest possible account with the ideal and the principled.

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

Thou art a votary to fond desire

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

Zen in the Martial Arts

There is only one way to achieve lasting happiness. That is simply: Be happy.

Zen and the Art of Happiness