"Art is both creation and recreation." — Lin Yutang

"Art is both creation and recreation."

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83 Quotes by Lin Yutang

Lin Yutang has 83 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I have done my best. That is about all the philosophy of living one needs.
The history omankind seems like kite flying; sometimes, when the wind is favorable, we let go the string a little…
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated…
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his…
No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful…
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to…
It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India
I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of…
Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus…
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old…
Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the… — Pietro Aretino
Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them… — Aristotle
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for… — Aristotle
I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in… — Billie Joe Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,… — Karen Armstrong
I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new… — Darren Aronofsky
I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your… — Arthur Ashe
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers. — Isaac Asimov

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