49 result(s) for Quotes About Why People Shouldn’t Die For Art.
"The life of the lowest human being is far more important than all the works of Leonardo da Vinci."
"I would rather save the life of one person dying of gangrene than discover a new planet."
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
"Though I love the work, I feel it is so much better to have a life."
"We must respect the person, even if we hate the art."
"Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant."
"I think one should strive to be a more or less decent human being."
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"A human life is a symphony of sufferings that we play until we drop."
"Art is not a matter of life and death. It is more important than that."
"It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The thing that matters is to believe; to believe in something; to believe that something matters."
"The end of art is peace."
"There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth."
"The love of life is necessary to all finest accomplishment."
"Each man is good in His sight. In the sight of God."
"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”"
"Life is too short to be little."
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
"What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
"The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters."
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"The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them."
"Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for."
"Before I can discard the God of my upbringing, I must replace belief in him with belief in something else."
"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
"The life of one man is more important than all the art in the world."
"I would not die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
"Art is not worth dying for."
"It is absurd to die for an idea: obviously."
"What is absurd and monstrous is to confuse symbols with reality, to take the map for the territory, to die for a flag, to kill for an opinion."
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
"No art is any good unless you can feel how it's made."
"No one is going to die for art."
"Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art."
"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly will see its moral lesson."
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"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"It is not our abilities that show what we truly are. It is our choices."
"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people."
"A life isn't significant except for its impact on other lives."
"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation."
"I don't want to die without scars."
