Samuel Johnson
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”
Thomas a Kempis
“He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love…
Marcel Duchamp
“I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.”
John Burroughs
“The secret of happiness is something to do.”
Henrik Ibsen
“A forest bird never wants a cage.”
Walt Kelly
“Every burden is a blessing.”
Stella Adler
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
Martin Buber
“The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of…
Jean Giraudoux
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness…
Oscar Hammerstein II
“Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.”
Lewis Mumford
“To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.”
Iris Murdoch
“Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than…
Pierre Schaeffer
“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.”
Joseph Campbell
“Love is a friendship set to music.”
Brigitte Bardot
“Do you have to have a reason for loving?”
James Agee
“This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.”
William Camden
“The sea hath fish for every man.”
Louis Dudek
“The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first…
Rose Kennedy
“Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.”
Terri Windling
“Filmmaking can be a fine art.”
Gustave Flaubert
“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
Paul Tournier
“The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.”
Edna Ferber
“Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
Arthur Erickson
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
Tom Robbins
“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
Horace Walpole
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in…
Robert Rauschenberg
“An empty canvas is full.”
Lewis Carroll
“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”