Quotes of: Liberal-arts Keyword

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

Zooey Deschanel

You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.

Zaha Hadid

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

I Capture the Castle

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The Importance Of Living

Families are great murderers of the creative impulsive, particularly husbands.

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

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

John Sloan on Drawing and Painting

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

King Lear

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Romeo and Juliet

The western mind makes definitions; it draws lines.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Once upon a time, this idea of having a trained, disciplined, cultivated memory was not nearly so alien as it would seem to us to be today.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

It is the story that matters not just the ending.

A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

The Mammoth Hunters

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Koolaids: The Art of War

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness