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Life Quotes by Lawren Harris
- Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
- Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
- Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and…
- The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him…
- I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and…
- Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a…
- Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit…
- The primary function of art is not to imitate or represent or interpret, but to create a living thing; it is the reduction of all…
- Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle