The Art of Living: Quotations from Artists, Photographers, Architects, Designers, Cartoonists, Poets, Writers, Novelists, and Critics on Art and Life (Quotable Books)

Quotations and observations from artists, photographers, architects, designers, cartoonists, poets, writers, novelists, and critics on art and life..
Sample quotes:
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ”” Richard Bach, novelist
The reason birds can fly and we cannot is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. ”” James Matthew Barrie, children's author
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ”” Calvin of Calvin & Hobbes comic strip
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution. ”” Paul Cezanne, painter
To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. ”” e. e. cummings, poet
If a man throws himself out of the fourth floor window, and you can't make a sketch of him before he gets to the ground, you will never do anything big. ”” Eugène Delacroix, painter
The soul can split the sky in two,
and let the face of God shine through.
”” Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar. ”” Pablo Picasso, artist
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess. ”” Rainer Maria Rilke, poet
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. ”” Paul Valery, poet and critic