Art Quote by T. S. Eliot Download Open image “If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.” — T. S. Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Career Ifs Life Occupation
Making a living in the arts, though, creates so many jobs for other people. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Art is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it! — Rick Sutter Copy Share Image
The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee Copy Share Image
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Being an artist is not exactly the most universally respected, or secure thing to do with your life. It can be frightening and you… — Joan Osborne Copy Share Image
I think the best thing about a career in the arts is that you can retire if you want and you don't have to… — Noah Reid Copy Share Image
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image