Memorable Life Is More Valuable Than Art Quotes

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"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
Pablo Picasso
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
Thomas Merton
"I would always rather be happy than dignified."
Charlotte Brontë
"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
Katie Couric
"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something."
Winston Churchill
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be."
José Ortega y Gasset
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
Pablo Picasso
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Oscar Wilde
"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
William James
"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
Mae West
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Confucius
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
"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."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful."
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
"Life is a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once."
Lillian Dickson
"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."
William Blake
"Better to have lived and lost, than never to have lived at all."
Ernest Hemingway
"May you live every day of your life."
Jonathan Swift
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"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
William James
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live."
Myles Munroe
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
Aristotle
"To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."
George Santayana
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"Better to have life and skies than a pot of gold."
Chinese Proverb
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will."
Michel de Montaigne
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus
"If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
Bruce Lee
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
Lao Tzu
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"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
Mark Twain
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'."
Erma Bombeck
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."
William W. Purkey
"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."
William Wallace
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Robert Byrne
"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Do all the good you can, for all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as long as you can."
Hillary Clinton
"I have no desire to preserve the arts; it is life that I want to preserve."
Isadora Duncan
"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it."
Mother Teresa
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
Edgar Degas
"I think the purpose of art is to stop time."
Bob Dylan
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."
Jean Arp
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
Oscar Wilde
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."
Pablo Picasso
"The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity."
Alberto Giacometti
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"In order to create, you have to love what you're doing."
Isabelle Adjani
"The glory of art is that it makes you forget time."
Unknown
"The artist is not a special kind of person; rather each person is a special kind of artist."
Ananda Coomaraswamy
"Art is the signature of civilizations."
Beverly Sills
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
Francis Bacon
"Art is what you can get away with."
Andy Warhol
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
Stella Adler
"Art is a way of recognizing oneself."
Louise Bourgeois
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
Scott Adams
"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso
"Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down."
Charles Péguy
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
André Gide
"Good design is art that you can use."
Paola Antonelli
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
Paul Cézanne
"The older I grow, the more I value devotion to simplicity and other mundane things."
Ella Maillart
"I believe that every human being is potentially creative."
Ella Maillart
"All art is but dirtying the paper fairly."
John Ruskin
"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."
Ernst Fischer
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
Stephen Sondheim
"Art is a meeting ground of the world inside and the world outside."
Laurie Anderson
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
Robert Schumann
"The principle of art is to pause, not bypass."
Jerzy Kosinski
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
Oscar Wilde
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things."
Denis Diderot
"Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure."
Alfred North Whitehead
"Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings."
Agnes Martin
"Art alone makes life possible - this is how radically I would like to lay it down."
Nietzsche
"Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness."
Anni Albers
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
Pablo Picasso
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
Michelangelo
"The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
Albert Einstein
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt
"Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify."
Henry David Thoreau
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
Charlie Chaplin
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
George Bernard Shaw
"In the temple of art, art is supreme."
Heinrich Heine
"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
Benjamin Franklin
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
Vincent van Gogh
"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Émile Zola
"The glory of art is that it begins where nature ends."
Vincent van Gogh
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