Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

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.,

Withholding love is a bit like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

Memory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris

To live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us.

Naikan: Gratitude, Grace, and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.

An Object of Beauty

Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness