Rajneesh Quotes

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

I think it's good to live an artful life.

Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

Life should be art, right?

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?

To create one must be able to respond. Creativity is the ability to respond to all that goes on around us, to choose from the hundreds of possibilities of though, feeling, action, and reaction and to put these together in a unique response, expression or message that carries moment, passion and meaning. In this sense, loss of our creative milieu means finding ourselves limited to only one choice, divested of, suppressing, or cendoring feelings and thoughts, not acting, not saying, doing, or being.

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

Your life is your art.

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

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

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

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

You are being suffocated by tradition... Why don't you say, 'I am going to build a life for myself, for my time, and make it a work of art'? Your life isn't a work of art ---it's a thirdhand Victorian whatnot shelf, complete with someone else's collection of seashells and hand-carved elephants.

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

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

A creative moment is part of a longer creative process which, in turn, is part of a creative life.

Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with anything in particular.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

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