Quotes of: Visual-arts Keyword

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

By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

The Lost Art of Mixing

The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

Lorenzaccio

The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

Make Good Art

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship --Toltec Wisdom Book

Little decisions over time make a big impact on our lives.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise

If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.

Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise