All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Henry Ellis
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. – Henry Ellis
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
Everything you can imagine is real. – Pablo Picasso
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it. – Flannery O’Connor
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it. – Flannery O’Connor
You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. – Viggo Mortensen
You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day. – Viggo Mortensen
The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. – Leo Tolstoy
The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible. – Leo Tolstoy
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It’s not something that committees can do. It’s not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It’s done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world. – Robert Hughes
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It’s not something that committees can do. It’s not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It’s done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world. – Robert Hughes
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos. – Rollo May
Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos. – Rollo May
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. – Hannah Harrington
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that’s what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you. – Hannah Harrington