Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
– Iris Murdoch
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- I think being a woman is like being Irish… Everyone says you’re important and nice, but you take second place all the time. – Iris Murdoch
- Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them. – Iris Murdoch
- there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart – Iris Murdoch
- I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move. – Iris Murdoch
- Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
- Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved – Iris Murdoch
- He felt, in a way so familiar as to be almost dreary, the chosen victim of the gods, the self-admitted traitor, the one destined for judgment. – Iris Murdoch
- I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture. – Iris Murdoch
- One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
- One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness. – Iris Murdoch
- It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before. – Iris Murdoch
- Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself. – Iris Murdoch
- Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. – Iris Murdoch
- But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You’re like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. – Iris Murdoch
- Love doesn’t think like that. All right, it’s blind as a bat–”Bats have radar. Yours doesn’t seem to be working. – Iris Murdoch
- True leaders don’t give consoling answers, they take constructive actions. – Amit Kalantri
- People who are less happy, I find, are always consoling those who are more. – Renata Adler
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- Love is your greatest asset, fear is your greatest liability, and joy is your greatest reward. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. – Ronald Reagan
- Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. – Lao Tzu
- He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. – Machado de Assis
- My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me. – Alireza Salehi Nejad
- Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
- Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old. – Jasper Johns
- Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
- You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. – Seth Godin
- Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself. – Edward Hirsch
- I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It’s art if you see it as art. – Andy Warhol
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- Don’t just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for ‘create art’ and see if it fits). – Richie Norton
- Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own. – Sarah Cross
- Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human. – Jonathan Smith
- By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound. – Angelus Silesius
- Be the best you can be for yourself! – Susan Marie Murdoch