Quotes of: Performance-art Keyword

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

The Art of Saying Goodbye: A Novel

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

The Art of the Novel

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

The Art of Power

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

The Art of Power

Poetry can have varied and useful functions; and seduction is apparently something worth writing poetry for.

The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem

Such a simple concept, yet so true. That which we manifest is before us, we are the creators of our own destiny.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

I’ll give you a theory: Man’s closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Terriers are problem solvers. They'll do what you tell them, but only if it happens to be in line with what they wanted to do anyway.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

The Art Spirit

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

The Art Spirit

It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

The Art of Public Speaking

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

The Art Spirit

Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.

The Art of Creative Thinking

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Tom Wolfe

Art teaches you the philosophy of life, and if you can't learn it from art, you can't learn it at all. It shows you that there is no perfection. There is light, and there is shadow. Everything is in half tint.

William Morris Hunt

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization wi...

William Morris

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

Wallace Shawn

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