J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

Worry worships the words of the enemy

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom and it has to know the art of trust.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

The only enemy of art is taste.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not "I'm having a bad day and feel bitchy" nuts or PMS nuts. "I think I'll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend" nuts.

The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.

My true program is summed up in one word: life. I expect to photograph anything suggested by that word which appeals to me.

Music and fashion go hand in hand. I think music inspires all types of arts; it inspires life, emotion, mood, and all of those things are reflected in my fashion and my style. One doesn’t go without the other.