Quotes of: Arts Keyword

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

The Art of Listening

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

The Art of the Novel

When you're down, remember your triumphs. [...] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.

The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel

For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you’re possibly dying.

The Art of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams Into Reality!

The proof of humanity is that sometimes, we all make mistakes.

The Art of Achievement and Fulfillment: Fundamental Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Dreams Into Reality!

That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Racing is about discipline and intelligence, not about who has the heavier foot. The one who drives smart will always win in the end.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Artist Descending a Staircase

In the endeavor to establish a difficult habit, for example, mere wishing will never carry it to a successful conclusion; our wishing must rise to the level of WANTING if this goal is to be achieved.

The Art of Self-Control

Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.

The Art of Storytelling

I grew up in an artists' community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art.

Vin Diesel

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

Waldemar Januszczak

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Yann Martel

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Truth in Christ is not a matter of being near or far like in martial arts when you strive for a black belt. He saves us then we grow; not the other way around.

Killosophy

And the pebbles fight each other as rocks/And my father bends among them/Two hands outstretching up to me/Not that I can hear.

Rock Art & the X-Ray Style

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?

Short Drive, Sweet Chariot

The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.

A Summary View of the Rights of British America: Reprinted from the Original Ed.,