Top 100 Art Of Living Life Quotes
#2. To me this is the first principle of life, the foundational principle, and a lesson you can't learn at the foot of any wise man: Get up! The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
Joe Biden
#3. The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.
Piet Mondrian
#4. He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
T.E. Lawrence
#5. Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
Alan Dean Foster
#6. He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible.
Dorothy Dunnett
#7. Whatever your life's pursuit
art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be
you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#8. The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.
Wassily Kandinsky
#9. We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.
D.H. Lawrence
#10. The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well.
Wilferd Peterson
#11. Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle.
#12. Living where I live New York I don't think anyone's going to make a fuss. But it is more deeply satisfying because it's of your place and means that you aren't forgotten; someone's noticed what you have been doing with your life.
Peter Carey
#13. Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
Ray Bradbury
#14. Ninety per cent of the art of living consists of getting on with people you can't stand.
Samuel Goldwyn
#16. Learn the art of living. Make your life as an ageless art, then you will never grow older.
Debasish Mridha
#17. What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts ... But you, I think, have always comprehended this.
James Branch Cabell
#18. Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.
John French Sloan
#19. Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.
Arshile Gorky
#20. What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.
Sarah Bernhardt
#21. Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
Jamie Wyeth
#22. The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living ...
Dione Lucas
#23. Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.
Hans Hofmann
#24. In the first grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line ... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus.
Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
#25. We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.
Ai Weiwei
#26. I buy art in order to live with it at home or in the office, never to store it away in a vault. In fact, living with art has been one of the great joys of my life. It is a private pleasure, however, and not one that I have an urge to inflict on other people.
Michael Audain
#27. Want to save lives, but art, like the stories you want to write ... that's the kind of stuff that makes life worth living.
Linda Kage
#28. The art of living ... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
Alan W. Watts
#29. You are your art
Your are your song
You are your craft.
You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream;
Priscilla Koranteng
#30. I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
Robert Henri
#31. Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#32. The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.
Krista Tippett
#33. The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.
Rachel Field
#34. Minimalism is the constant art of editing your life.
Danny Dover
#35. However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting doubt on solutions, and generally illustrating the impossibility of living happily or virtuously ever after.
Iris Murdoch
#36. Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson.
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
#37. If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.
Girdhar Joshi
#38. My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day
a way of relating.
Joyce Carol Oates
#40. There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
Charles Ives
#41. In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present.
Michael Poeltl
#42. Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life.
Epictetus
#43. Music is for souls & hearts to dance & sing.
Art is for expressing your visionary being.
Words are tools for exploring & celebrating.
Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.
Waste not one jot of what you are given!
Use everything you've got to maximise living.
Jay Woodman
#44. The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art.
Martin Prechtel
#45. There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with!
Philip Roth
#46. Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.
Kathleen Raine
#47. However advanced the technology may become, life is impossible without humanity, and that's why we need a combination of science of thinking and art of living!
Narendra Modi
#48. To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
Jean De La Fontaine
#49. Living the dream is simply a form of living out your passion, of making that passion gradually, through persistence and effort, a central part of your life.
Urijah Faber
#50. If the office in the Rua dos Douradores represents Life for me, the second floor room I live in on that same street represents Art. Yes, Art, living on the same street as Life but in a different room; Art, which offers relief from life without actually relieving one of living.
Fernando Pessoa
#51. That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.
Anuradha Bhattacharyya
#52. Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.
H.E. Davey
#53. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
#54. The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.
Jeanette Winterson
#55. The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
Richard Ford
#56. Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.
Henry Moore
#57. All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.
Charlotte Eriksson
#58. We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oceans, flowers and trees, love and friendship, music and literature, art and poetry.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#59. I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
D.T. Suzuki
#60. We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on." - Kazuto Kirigaya "Kirito" (Sword Art Online)
Reki Kawahara
#61. Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it.
Amit Ray
#62. I like living, breathing better than working ... my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.
Marcel Duchamp
#63. Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.
Gustave Flaubert
#64. I never had the idea of moving to Paris and becoming something. I liked the idea of living in Paris because it seemed to have so many parts of life I really enjoyed. The people there seemed to prize literature and art, food and drinking, a more hedonistic way of living.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#65. The whole art of living is to regard people who cause us suffering as, in a degree, enabling us to accept its divine form and thus to populate our daily life with divinities.
Marcel Proust
#66. Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and friends, and create lasting beauty together, worthy of your inner Rembrandt.
Tom Althouse
#67. If my fellow Americans could adopt even a fraction of the French attitude about food and life (don't worry, you don't have to sign on to the politics, too), managing weight would cease to be a terror, an obsession, and reveal its true nature as part of the art of living.
Mireille Guiliano
#68. Life is a collection of experiences. To experience each moment fully and accept it is an art. The art of living gracefully and never growing 'old'.
Rashmi Bansal
#69. Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar ...
Hillary Clinton
#70. Food is art, I believe. If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way.
Bryan Fuller
#71. Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.
John Edgar Park
#72. Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
Boris Pasternak
#73. The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations.
Roland Barthes
#74. The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.
Gerry Spence
#75. I will never tell another person, "I don't understand you ... " and why? Because if I say that, it means that I am disabled in a way. The inability to connect to another's perspective is, I believe, a disability.
C. JoyBell C.
#76. The place of the arts in the classroom is essential in encouraging invention, ambition, and an understanding of the importance and pleasures of living an examined life,
Barbara Kruger
#77. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.
Virchand Gandhi
#78. I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.
Maya Angelou
#79. The Shortness of Life: Seneca on Busyness and the Art of Living Wide Rather Than Living Long" "How to Find Your Purpose and Do What You Love" "9 Learnings from 9 Years of Brain Pickings" Anything about Alan Watts: "Alan Watts has changed my life. I've written about him quite a bit.
Timothy Ferriss
#80. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness. One With Life.
Eckhart Tolle
#81. As he scribbled his odds and ends, he made a note reaffirming his belief that art always serves beauty, and beauty is delight in form, and form is the key to organic life, since no living thing can exist without it, so that every work of art, including tragedy, expresses the joy of existence.
Boris Pasternak
#82. The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.
E.F. Schumacher
#83. All of art is a search for ways of being, of living life more fully.
August Wilson
#84. Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
C. G. Jung
#85. Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.
Rebecca West
#86. My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.
Lorena Garcia
#87. Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
Raymond Chandler
#88. Michelangelo was not only widely famous during his lifetime, but actually wealthy as a result of producing art (he was the first Westerner to have a biography of his life published while he was living).
David D. Peck
#90. The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.
David Bayles
#91. Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.
Satish Kumar
#92. All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#93. Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
Richie Norton
#94. Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift.
Maya Angelou
#95. The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity.
Annie Dillard
#96. Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.
Christopher Priest
#97. ...among whom the art of living well and getting the most out of life at a moderate expense has been attained to a very high degree.
Maria Gentile
#98. A creative life is an amplified life. It's a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner - continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you - is a fine art, in and of itself.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
Ellen Langer
#100. What is nature? Art thou not the living government of God? O Heaven, is it in very deed He then that ever speaks through thee, that lives and loves in thee, that lives and loves in me?
Thomas Carlyle
