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It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box. — Michael Gungor

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. — Richie Norton

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. — Francis Bacon

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God's art gallery. — Erica Goros

Lovemaking is the consolation for living in the body, just as art is the consolation for living in the world. — Laura Argiri

There are many ways to find meaning in life, one of them is the love of art — Ndiritu Wahome

Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal. — Henry Miller

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living. — Ann Patchett

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public. — Christian Bauman

The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God. — Mahatma Gandhi

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living. — Bertolt Brecht

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor. — W. H. Auden

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
— Henri Frederic Amiel

The art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark. — Henri Nouwen

If exercise was sold in the pill form, it would be the number pill sold throughout the world because the benefits are endless. — Renee Dumont

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this. — John Cage

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument. — Gerry Spence

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself. — Laurance Rockefeller

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes everyday - unless you're too busy; then you should sit for an hour. — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

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

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things. — Luke Slattery

The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim. — Gustave Courbet

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire. — Doris Lessing

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. — Havelock Ellis

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form. — Harold Prince

Don't think too much. You'll create a problem that wasn't even there in the first place. — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and "art" itself has become satire. — Ruadhan J. McElroy

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way. — Laura Huxley

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. — Herman Melville

It's all in the art. You get no credit for living. — V.S. Pritchett

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. — Sydney J. Harris

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living. — John Cage

I didn't know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world — Vivienne Westwood

When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living. — Jon Mead

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti. — James Thurber

Every model is a living sculpture - art in-vivo. — Stephane Rolland

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art. — Gustave Flaubert

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. — Roger Zelazny

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living. — Albert Einstein

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts. — Satish Kumar

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. — Machado De Assis

Masters in all branches of art must first be masters in living, for the soul creates everything. — Bruce Lee

Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living. — John Steinbeck

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means. — Jimmy Buffett

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living. — Philippe Petit

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. — Marcus Aurelius

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. — George Herbert Mead

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking. — Ai Weiwei

Civilisation is the art of living in contact with other persons with the minimum of discomfort. — Nanamoli Thera

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles. — Bernard Baruch

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation. — Robert Henri

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves. — Eugene H. Peterson

To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures. — Ted Sarandos

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down. — Amanda Palmer

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe. — Jason Innocent

The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying. — Mahatma Gandhi

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. — Julian Jaynes

They say the average person can't make a living in art ... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do. — George Sutherland

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition. — Brian D. McLaren

Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing. — Van Day Truex

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums. — Janet Flanner

Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson. — Sukhraj S. Dhillon

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. — Robert Henri

Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it. — Amit Ray

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living. — Viktor E. Frankl

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. — Bell Hooks

Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it in a certain way, and produce art. — Audre Lorde

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. — Bernard M. Baruch