It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
We allow for many more gradations of personality in life than we do in art.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.