John Maeda Quotes

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

I suppose I'm very aware of time and of memories and of enjoying life... not just doing the right thing and being a useful person, which I certainly wanna be and believe that I am. I hold onto my family really tight and try to be as good a woman as I can be in my life.

Art makes better humans, art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.

What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.

If you have only one life, you can't altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal.

The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things we believe in and the things we celebrate; it has served to reinforce our relationship to each other.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

If you want art, don't mess about with movies. Buy a Picasso.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Ive got a lot of life left in me and I want to live it doing things I like to do.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.

I just want to live my life the best way I can and enjoy the moment that I have off the court because you need to find a good balance. I think this is very important.

And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.