I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
Gracefulness is a correct life: sensuality which contemplates and forms itself.
I think it's good to live an artful life.