"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on Beauty
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"Art is science made clear."

Cocteau, Jean on Arts and Artists
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"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on Ambition
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"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out."

Drummond, John on Arts and Artists
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"In art as in love, instinct is enough."

France, Anatole on Arts and Artists
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"Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand."

Grass, Gunther on Arts and Artists
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"In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too."

Moarny, Suzanne on Loneliness
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"All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers."

Mccullers, Carson on Loneliness
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"On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone."

Joplin, Janis on Loneliness
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

Einstein, Albert on Loneliness
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"What is art but a way of seeing?"

Berger, Thomas on Arts and Artists
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"The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone."

Baldwin, James on Arts and Artists
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"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."

Leacock, Stephen B. on Advertising
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"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

Lynes, Russell on Acceptance
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Achievement
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Achievement
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"I want to put a ding in the universe."

Jobs, Steve on Achievement
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"The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies."

Montapert, Alfred A. on Achievement
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"Out of the strain of doing and into the peace of the done."

Woodruff, Julia on Achievement
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"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."

Desai, Morarji on Achievement
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"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."

Cervantes, Miguel De on Acting and Actors
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."

Wilder, Thornton on Acting and Actors
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"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on Absence
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