"I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
"We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be."
"Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love."
"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."
"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."
"O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!"
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."
"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people."
"Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together."
"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
"Wherever art appears, life disappears."
"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."
"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."
"In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
"Art is the proper task of life."
"Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art."
"Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art."
"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence."
