Abandon Quote by Patti Smith

“In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. For nothing is more precious than…

— Patti Smith

You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.

— Agnes Gund

The essence of art that is at all noble is the DREAM, and this dream dwells only upon what is distant, absent, vanished, unattainable.

— Georges Rodenbach

Life abandons those who choose to surrender before the challenges of lifethose who lack the courage and ability to strive shall be left behind.

— Anonymous

“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the…

— Christian Wiman

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

— Robert Hayden

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

— Gustave Courbet

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.

— H. L. Mencken

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

— Marilyn Ferguson

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not…

— Lawrence Durrell

“In art as in experience, everyday life may be with us at the start but remains fugitive to the very end.”

— Joseph Leo Koerner

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez