Art Quotes
“Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.”
“It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.”
-- Isadora Duncan
“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”
-- Charles de Lint
“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”
-- Henry Ward Beecher
“'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
-- W. H. Auden