Quotes of: Arts Keyword

We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The stakes for us are high and real 6) We accept remuneration for our labor 7) We do not overidenti...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the c...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Fear is good. Like self-doubt, fear is an indicator. Fear tells us what we have to do. Remember our rule of thumb: The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it. Resistance is experienced as fear; the degr...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Bill arrives with a grin about something. Sure, he's got some jets for my machine and knows right were they are. I'll have to wait a second though. He's got to close a deal out in back on some Harley parts. I go with him out in a shed in back and see...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The cause of our current social crises, he would have said, is a genetic defect within the nature of reason itself. And until this genetic defect is cleared, the crises will continue. Our current modes of rationality are not moving society forward in...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I tell him getting stuck is the commonest trouble of all. Usually, I say, your mind gets stuck when you're trying to do too many things at once. What you have to do is try not to force words to com. That just gets you more stuck. What you have to do ...

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

The thing is, and here we come to E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art (which he has never tried to communicate to anybody else until now, so prepare for Severe Bafflement), that on the surface they are so obviously those situations that it is ve...

Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their re...

Shannon L. Alder

Blind Seer: You seek a great fortune, you three who are now in chains. You will find a fortune, though it will not be the one you seek. But first... first you must travel a long and difficult road, a road fraught with peril. Mm-hmm. You shall see tha...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Ulysses Everett McGill: You can't display a toad in a fine restaurant like this! Why, the good folks here would go right off the feed! Delmar O'Donnell: I just don't think it's right keeping him under wraps like we's ashamed of him. Ulysses Everett M...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Ulysses Everett McGill: Deceitful, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent. Delmar O'Donnell: Ok, Everett. Ulysses Everett McGill: Hit by a train! Truth mea...

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

All you ought to be worrying about now is order (not about how to impose it on chaos, wish is the opposite of art, but about how to bring it out of chaos, which is art itself). And your worrying about this ought not to be a tortured thing - God knows...

Blake Bailey

Since the early 1920s a unique spiritual path has existed in Japan. This distinctly Japanese version of yoga is called Shin-shin-toitsu-do, and it combines seated meditation, moving meditation, breathing exercises, and other disciplines to help pract...

Love

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls.

Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

Choke

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with he frame than with the artwork itself.

Choke

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

The Chronoliths

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

In Conversation

The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.

Doom Of Youth

A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.

Eve