Quotes of: Fine-arts Keyword

I believe that people were not so allergic to their environment until they began polluting themselves and their world with so many drugs and toxins.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Yvan's a very tolerant bloke, which of course, when it comes to relationships, is the worst thing you can be. Yvan's very tolerant because he couldn't care less.

'Art'

Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden. (Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)

The Art of Always Being Right

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

The Art of Always Being Right

You’re scaring the dog,” Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I’ve heard. Depersonalization.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

INTEREST. Here is the key to the whole thing. If and when you are truly interested in what you are doing, or are about to do, then you will center your attention on it with little or no effort, and almost irrespective of the attendant conditions.

The Art of Self-Control

Movies are visual, aural, they involve people, and life, and ideas and art, they are so elastic. They can hold anything, withstand everything, and make you feel anything. Other arts can do that, but movies are the only ones that can incorporate other...

Wesley Morris

...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.

If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

Every moment is utterly unique and will not be continued in eternity. This fact gives life its poignancy and should concentrate your attention on what you are experiencing now.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Consistent happiness is an art - An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard

The Road to World Peace: Beginning with Inner Peace

There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.

Rescue From Sana'a

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right.

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

When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Art was my little private pleasure. Nobody had seen my art, not even my parents. Andy didn't know about it. My dream was to become a publisher, not an artist lost in New York.

By My Side

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

The Metalogicon of John of Salsibury: A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium

Here's a rule of life: You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you

Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training and Real World Violence

Maybe to feel superior in struggle was sensed, When people were aware to fight for identity.”- Near Kin

Near Kin: A Collection of Words and Art Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

Nerd Do Well