A Quote by Audre Lorde

Art is not living. It is the use of living. — © Audre Lorde
Art is not living. It is the use of living.
Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle - Would you kindly direct me to hell?
There are living systems; there is no living "matter." No substance, no single molecule, extracted and isolated from a living being possess, of its own, the aforementioned paradoxical properties. They are present in living systems only; that is to say, nowhere below the level of the cell.
It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.
Being on the run wasn't fun, but it was something I had to do. I was actually working in legitimate jobs. I wasn't living on people's credit cards. I was living like a character out of a movie. It was performance art.
The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.
If you say, I'm living in America and I have freedom of speech but I choose not to use it because it's going to cost me, well, you're not living in freedom. You're not free.
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
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