Top 100 Art Of Being Quotes
#1. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
Alan Moore
#3. The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.
Gloria Steinem
#4. It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
Nicolas Chamfort
#5. Follow his intuition is the art of being guided by the Angel of the heart
Melki Rish
#6. The art of being a great entrepreneur is finding the right balance between vision and reality.
Giff Constable
#7. Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.
Hector Hugh Munro
#9. Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f - you're doing
Mick Napier
#10. Develop the wise art of being radically truthful and remaining considerate, thoughtful, and safe.
Claude Steiner
#11. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher
#12. Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of
the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A
great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplace
or probing authoritatively the unknown.
::: Brett Whiteley :::
Brett Whiteley
#13. I think in the Western world we have gotten overly identified with doing, and we've kind of forgotten about the art of being. And we don't see value in it; we think that if you're not doing something all of the time, being very active and producing something, then you're sort of wasting your time.
Shakti Gawain
#14. I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof
Ani DiFranco
#15. We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
Aldous Huxley
#16. When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.
Debbie Ford
#17. The whole art of government consists in the art of being honest.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. The art of being wise is to respond to everything with kindness and love.
Debasish Mridha
#19. Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#20. Alltami (n.)
The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.
Douglas Adams
#21. It is our duty to seek to acquire the art of being cheerful. It will hold in check the demons of despair and stifle the power of discouragement and hopelessness.
David O. McKay
#22. And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.
Miriam Toews
#23. There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture.
Sheridan Morley
#26. Wisdom is the art of being courageous and generous with the unknown.
John O'Donohue
#27. Harvard University psychologist William James summed it up beautifully. 'The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.' This
Ashwin Sanghi
#28. I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.
Steve Vai
#29. We already have so much abundance. We truly do. We need not search too far. It is within. The reason we fail to recognize this is because we haven't quite mastered the art of being. For abundance to prevail, we must have LOVE, gratitude, acceptance and compassion.
John Welwood
#30. Creativity is the art of being yourself through all the possible means and ways.
Yasser Kashef
#31. It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
D.W. Griffith
#32. The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#33. Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#34. Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.
Kahil Gibran
#35. Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Earl Wilson
#36. On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you.
Elif Shafak
#37. Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.
Camron Wright
#38. Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
William Hazlitt
#39. The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
Sophie Swetchine
#40. The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny ...
Mick Rock
#41. The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James
#42. The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.
Anne Truitt
#43. So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#44. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way - the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason - and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble.
Gregory David Roberts
#45. The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
#46. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
David Brooks
#47. We will have nothing substantial to offer anyone else so long as we have not first mastered the art of being patient midwives to our own thoughts.
Alain De Botton
#48. I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#49. Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.
Patti Page
#50. The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club.
Alan Watts
#51. The art of growing old is the art of being regarded by the oncoming generations as a support and not as a stumbling-block.
Andre Maurois
#52. I think anything like that-
which is contemplative, silent, shows a person alone-
people always feel sad. Is it because we've lost the art of being alone?
Andrew Wyeth
#53. You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
Soren Kierkegaard
#54. Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.
Rajneesh
#55. Mindfulness is the art of being present in the moment, without passing judgement about your experience.
Rhena Branch
#56. I perfected the art of being uninteresting.
Abbi Glines
#57. Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world, the importance of developing the life skill of solitude, meditation, and quietly being with oneself can not be overstated.
Joshua Becker
#58. You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise.
Mike Davidson
#59. I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
Sean Patrick Thomas
#60. The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
Tony Snow
#61. The art of being a warrior is to balance the wonder and the terror of being alive.
Carlos Castaneda
#62. Wherever You Are, Be There
One of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.
Jim Rohn
#63. Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.
Ashton Kutcher
#64. Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#65. My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.
Jacob Rothschild
#66. Being a creation of Man, art re-creates Man.
Naum Gabo
#67. They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
Francis Bacon
#68. Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
Stephen Sondheim
#69. I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it.
Jeff Koons
#70. There is no need to run outside for better seeing ... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see ... The way to do is to be.
Laozi
#71. I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs
#72. Architecture approaches nearer than any other art to being irrevocable because it is so difficult to get rid of.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#73. There's a huge cloud of shame around art and business being seen as bedfellows.
Amanda Palmer
#74. We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state of being is the important thing; that a man can be a carpenter and be a great man.
Robert Henri
#75. Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.
Benjamin Disraeli
#76. Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.
Judy Collins
#77. Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.
David Finckel
#78. A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being
Jessie Burton
#79. The less you think you know, the more will be known. It's amazing what you can know when you let go of being the knower.
Art Hochberg
#80. O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Jim Morrison
#81. An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
Tom Bissell
#82. If you're creating something that has some sort of cultural currency - if the idea is getting out there - then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it's through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture.
Shepard Fairey
#83. A person's work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#84. Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.
Billy Sherwood
#85. The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources.
Sun Tzu
#86. Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse, thus leaving of himself, of his nebulous person, nothing but verse?
Vladimir Nabokov
#87. I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.
Jeff Dunham
#88. There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
John Stuart Mill
#89. I speak for an art ... weary of its puny exploits, weary of pretending to be able, of being able, of doing a little better the same old thing, of going a little further along a dreary road.
Samuel Beckett
#90. I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.
Maurice Sendak
#91. Because art, for all its adventuresomeness, is also capable of being the most recidivist of human activities, forever falling back in reaction to what was itself a reaction to something else.
Howard Jacobson
#92. My characteristics as a scientist stem from a non-conformist upbringing, a sense of being something of an outsider, and looking for different perceptions in everything from novels, to art to experimental results. I like complexity and am delighted by the unexpected. Ideas interest me.
Peter C. Doherty
#93. I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.
Wayne Coyne
#94. Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.
Sandy Oshiro Rosen
#95. The only slight disconcertance being that in the middle of looking at a paintings [in the Museum of Modern Art] she always found herself desperately needing to take a pee. And grandmother's voice in her ear.
'My dear, if you really have to, only clean, very clean rest rooms will do.
J.P. Donleavy
#96. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud." "So life became a work of art," I marveled.
Kurt Vonnegut
#97. I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
Art Alexakis
#99. O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head
As is a winged messenger of heaven
William Shakespeare
#100. Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare.
Donald Goines
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