A work of art is like living people.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

— Gore Vidal

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

— Charles Baudelaire

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.

— Alfred Brendel

We can't stop living because other people are dead.

— Richelle Mead

And people are moody, dude. You gotta get used to living with people.

— John Green

I don't think people should do biopics of living people. I'm totally opposed to that.

— Patti Smith

That's what the future is for: to build the present, with real plans, made by living people.

— Muriel Barbery

Civilization is the art of living together with people not entirely like oneself.

— Helen Cam

“God, living people are irritating.”

— Kendare Blake

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

— Adam Johnson

The difficult thing isn't living with other people, it's understanding them.

— Jose Saramago

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.

— Cory Doctorow

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because…

— Dean Koontz

“Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people, and therefore it is in permanent evolution.”

— Eric J. Hobsbawm