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There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you. — Jack Canfield

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

All life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

The crescent sun is high, the moon low;
life is not for the faint-hearted;
so why the fuck should art be? — Hal Duncan

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale. — Peter Beard

Art is the extended arm of your imagination, The feast of inspiration for your muse. Art isn't just creativity, its a way of life. — Sarah Curran

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction. — Philip Johnson

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art. — Shunryu Suzuki

Dance as if life is a work of art.
Dance as if life is a stage for a dance drama. — Debasish Mridha

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art. — Lucian Freud

Life isn't long enough for love and art. — W. Somerset Maugham

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people. — PJ Harvey

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. — D.H. Lawrence

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. — Quintilian

All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully. — August Wilson

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life. — May Sarton

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me! — Romero Britto

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. — Brandon Lee

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life. — Julie Doucet

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. — Ani DiFranco

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It's a mystery! — Carl William Brown

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. — Oscar Wilde

That life has no clear meaning is the best possible news for an artist. — Marty Rubin

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life. — Jane Lynch

For me, I learnt from jiu-jitsu and martial arts to be humble and to go forward in life in a positive way. — Ricardo Liborio

My life has always somehow been played out in a minor key, unresolved. Art somehow resolves things for me. — Daphne Guinness

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. — Roy Ascott

No, darling! To die it's easy ... But you have to stuggle for life! — Art Spiegelman

The Kessler Theater is one such gem, an Art Deco beauty ... for a slice of real life, there's always the Kessler. — Ben Fountain

Life is a piece of art drawn by love on the canvas of hope with the colors of desires, wants, and needs. — Debasish Mridha

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. — Henry David Thoreau

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There was a lot to be said for the discipline of married life. It forced one to learn the art of compromise, and to remedy the flaws in one's nature. — John Connolly

Ok! So that's the spice. Typical gossips for or against a qualified newcomer! — Koral Dasgupta

Your life is a work of art, a craft to be carefully mastered. For patience has replaced time, and you are your own destination. — Rick Jarow

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. — Damien Hirst

Keep your life as simple as possible. That leaves room for the impossible to become possible. — Art Hochberg

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. — Mark Strand

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. — Alfred North Whitehead

You have to admit that this is a very strange life. If you don't admit it, then you have a very high threshold for strangeness, and more power to you. — Art Hochberg

The role of art for me is the visualization of attitude, of the human attitude towards life, towards the world. — Josef Albers

Dance music is my love, is my passion, is my life. I live for my fans and take my art very seriously. — Steve Aoki

Alas! for love, if thou art all,
And nought beyond, O earth. — Felicia Hemans

Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee. — Robert Herrick

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being. — Nelly Mazloum

Nothing like modern art for sterilizing the life out of things. — Aldous Huxley

Art should be created for life, not for the museum. — Jean Nouvel

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being. — Bruce Lee

The human body is the best work of art. — Jess C. Scott

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process. — Henry James

They say life isn't about waiting for the storm to end, it's about learning to dance in the rain. You have dancing in the rain down to an art. — Jaclyn M. Hawkes

The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death. — Plato

The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally. — Hans Ulrich Obrist

Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only - annihilation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Believe your life has value and you are here for a purpose. What that purpose is, is your life's work. — Art Hochberg

What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself. — Willa Cather

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist? — Mary Cassatt

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Karate is for life, not points. — David Walker

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art. — Toni Morrison

In life, nothing happens to you. It happens for you. — Rorion Gracie

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic. — Sia Furler

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. — Aristotle.

That's art. Nothing is for everybody. — Brian Spellman

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. — Lawren Harris

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life. — Leo Fitzpatrick

We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art. — Julianne Moore

That life has no clear purpose or meaning is the best possible news for artists. — Marty Rubin

Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself. — Raneem Kayyali

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Aren't we all just shooting for a life where art matters? — Lidia Yuknavitch

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. — Stephen King

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life. — Meher Baba

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle. — Ai Weiwei

If life were organized, there would be no need for art. — Andre Gide

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. — Marsha Norman

For me there is no difference between art and life. — Robert Rauschenberg

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese

Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply. — Ilya Ehrenburg

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. — Solange Nicole

Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture. — Chris Prentiss

The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore. — Art Donovan

Love is the antidote for all the fears, questions and worries that we accumulate in life. — Art Hochberg

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience. — Amit Kalantri

Art Is One if Life's Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation. — Nathanael West

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life. — Art Buchwald

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. — Toni Morrison

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art. — Lynn Coady

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. — Ben Sollee

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. — Dan Simmons

A wife can give you strife. A wife can act like a knife, and a wife can help you have a good life. And the same goes for husbands. — Art Hochberg

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. — Robertson Davies

Autism: Where the "randomness of life" collides and clashes with an individual"s need for the sameness~ — Eileen Miller

Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist. — Anais Nin

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal — Susan Vreeland