Art is not merely a decorative enhancement of our lives…

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

— Matisyahu

“None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.”

— Thomm Quackenbush

We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.

— Pema Chodron

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

“An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases…

— Seth Godin

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed…

— Tom Wolfe

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

— Anonymous

Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“For some death is an art, for others it is merely an inevitability.”

— Sadie S. Forsythe

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

— Roger Scruton

“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”

— George Santayana

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

— Anonymous

Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.

— Edward R. Murrow

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a…

— Elizabeth I