“Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.”
Seamus Heaney
“ Without the beast there is no comparable for beauty - you must have both in art and in life ”
Daniel Robert O'Neill
“The secret of life is in art.”
Oscar Wilde
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
“One must die to life in order to be utterly a creator”
Thomas Mann
“[T]o talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe