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Quotes About Balance

There are certain moments where artwork might seem like it's part of someone's career - if you really know the art world - , but I did my best to prevent that overlap.
~ Christopher Bollen
I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.
~ Dave Matthews
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
~ Donald Miller
Art is both a vengeance against reality and a reconciliation with it.
~ Francine du Plessix Gray
Art is the right hand of Nature.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.
~ Gertrude Stein
The true masters of the art of living are already happy.
~ Jean Anouilh
True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
. . .art is a discovery of harmony, a vision of disparities reconciled, or shape beneath confusion.
~ Robert Adams
All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.
~ Robin Morgan
Teach the art of living well.
~ Seneca the Younger
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
~ Amy Lowell
Some jobs you do - maybe you don't - are jobs that pay mortgages and some are art and I don't care about not being paid on those.
~ Amy Ryan
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
~ Ann Patchett
Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.
~ Billie Burke
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
~ Blaise Pascal
I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
~ Caio Fonseca
The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the secret of art.
~ Edward J. Fraughton
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
~ Ellen Glasgow
The art feeds my mind and soul and the job pays my bills. Finding the balance can be a challenge, but I am very fortunate for it.
~ Unknown
Legislation is the art of compromise.
~ Harry Reid
Artists are free to push boundaries to make art. But when pushing boundaries is their only aim, the result is usually bad art.
~ Jane Lynch
We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe