Saint Augustine Quotes

Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does “life”, but not so mind.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to give to the public, to the actors, to the artist - to give something that makes life the paradise it can be. Life can be a paradise. Still, I believe that. Even if there is Trump, there can be a paradise.

Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

The first flower that blossomed on this earth was an invitation to an unborn song.

Religion is responsible for a lot of the problems in the history of the world and it's not something that I practice or recommend, but to each his own.

Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of self-creation and self-destruction.

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.

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.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

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 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.