Quotes About Artful Life

#1. I think it's good to live an artful life.

Adam Driver

#2. 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

#3. Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won't be any crapper than I was.
Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, he hoped, indicated that he contained within him depths of crap as yet unplumbed.

Neil Gaiman

#4. Pikey Thomas dreamed of plums and caramel apples the night the faery-with-the-peeling-face stole his right eye.

Stefan Bachmann

#5. If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.

Robert Pozen

#6. Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs:
Despite the artful tensions of the calendar,
The life insurance, the tabled fertility rites,
The costly aversion of the eyes from death-
Beneath it all, desire of oblivion runs.

Philip Larkin

#7. Martin Jarvis was to have played the part originally but I think I had longer hair or something, I know not.

John Leeson

#8. Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison

#9. When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.

Herbert Croly

#10. Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it.

Frederic Bastiat

#11. You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Scott Brooks

#12. Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?

Gene Logsdon

#13. He thought about explaining math's beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound.

Katie Kennedy

#14. We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care in the world.

Dirk Benedict

#15. But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

Bayard Taylor

#16. Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life.

Thomas Gray

#17. See how the World its Veterans rewards!
A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards;
Fair to no purpose, artful to no end,
Young without Lovers, old without a Friend;
A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot;
Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.

Alexander Pope

#18. I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

David Cronenberg

#19. Climbed up on the rainbow
Just to see if I'd fall off

Tegan Quin

#20. From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

Toni Morrison