Art Quote by Marjorie M. Liu

“In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.”

— Mark Helprin

“The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

— Havelock Ellis

“Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.”

— Cathryn Louis

“What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us…

— Willa Cather

“Well, I had often pondered all this, not without an intense longing sometimes to turn to and do something real for once, to be…

— Hermann Hesse

“There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully.”

— Jennie Allen

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“And though I feel an unfathomable exhaustion, I feel compelled to keep at it, as though to give up working would be to concede…

— Steven Laffoley

“i wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. i wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.…

— Leo Tolstoy

“For our path in life...is stony and rugged now, and it rests with us to smooth it. We must fight our way onward. We…

— Charles Dickens

“Life was full for me. There were so many things to find out and a lot I had to prove to myself. The days…

— James Herriot

“In short, for me to live happily it was essential for the creatures I chose not to live at all. They must receive their…

— Albert Camus