Quotes About Everyday

Let us concentrate all our efforts on achieving perfection through the imperfect gestures of everyday life. True wisdom means respecting the simple things we do, for they can take us where we need to go.

The Tradition of the Sun belongs to all—it wasn't made for the erudite or the pure but for everyday people. Energy is to be found in the tiniest things man encounters in his path; the world is the true classroom, the Love Supreme knows you are alive and will teach you all you need to know.

Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people, bathing, using the toilet, and eating, is actually all that we need to be fully awake, fully alive, fully human.

We can be with what's happening and not dissociate. Awakeness is found in our pleasure and our pain, our confusion and our wisdom, available in each moment of our weird, unfathomable, ordinary everyday lives.

There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.

I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

I am for the art of underwear and the art of taxicabs. I am for the art of ice cream cones dropped on concrete.

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Pop art is for everyone.

Pop art is a way of liking things.

Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.

Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.

Sometimes life isn't magical, you see. Sometimes life is everyday. Its a trip to the keycutters in a rushed lunch break. It's the light, high rattle of a lightbulb's broken filament. It's your neighbour coming round to tell you you've left your car lights on. Yes rarely its something outer. Maybe it's the glance of a girl on Charlotte street, for example. But how long before a glance runs out? How long can you keep coasting on a look?

They're common, but nevertheless very beautiful. A sparrow. These are tits.

Being normal has some significant practical upsides.

David Foster Wallace

It is about simple awareness — awareness of what is so real and essential, so hidden in plain sight all around us, that we have to keep reminding ourselves, over and over: "This is water, this is water.

It is hard to notice what you see every day.

The commonplace miracle: that so many common miracles take place.

La normalidad es un equilibrista sobre el abismo de la anormalidad. ¡Cuántas ocultas demencias contiene el orden cotidiano!