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Quotes About Living

The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
~ Harold Prince
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
~ bell hooks
If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.
~ T. S. Eliot
My trade and art is to live.
~ Michel de Montaigne
I was always an artist. I was a broker to earn a living, but I was always thinking about my art.
~ Jeff Koons
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
~ Samuel Beckett
In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.
~ Unknown
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.
~ Romain Rolland
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.
~ Robert Henri
For me, art is about learning and about living with people. It's alive.
~ Miuccia Prada
I studied anthropology and art history, as I have always been captivated by living traditions.
~ Cosima Spender
Art is a framework, a kind of living trellis, on which public dreaming can shape itself.
~ Elizabeth Janeway
I'm all about supporting anyone whose art is also the way they make their living.
~ Jessica Alba
The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
~ Brian Michael Bendis
Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
~ Brit Marling
I think joy is just as instructive as pain, and I like it better. I never meant to suffer any more than I could help; my nature was meant for happiness, a daylight art and living.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.
~ Neil Gaiman
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
~ Renee Fleming
Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
~ Stephen Sprouse
I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living".
~ Unknown
I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.
~ Unknown