Pope John Paul II Quotes

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man.

In a sense, as we are creative beings, our lives become our work of art.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?

Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

Your life is your art.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

Our life is a work of art. We must seek always to be its artist.

For me going solo meant freedom to collaborate and do whatever I feel I'm good at doing. For me it was really not ever expanding as an artist, developing everything from my songwriting to my singing to my mission statement to my vision. I've been so inspired by all the creative freedom that it brings that I have no complaints.

Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.