A Quote by Lawren Harris

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Lawren Harris

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Art Art Is Become Between Feeling Highway Life Life Is Life Is Short Long Particular Picture Short Thing Universal Us

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Lawren Harris
Painter
October 23, 1885 - January 29, 1970

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

John Cassavetes

Poetry is a dangerous profession between conflict and resolution, between feeling and thought, between becoming and being, between the ultra-personal and the universal - and these balances are shifting all the time.

May Sarton

Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling over small things, we become jaded long before we have even begun to enjoy. When feelings are in balance they sweeten long days and great distances with gratitude and hope.

Joan D. Chittister

The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing.

Bruno Munari

Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.

Piet Mondrian

What makes art in general, and literature in particular, remarkable, what distinguishes them from life, is precisely that they abhor repetition. In everyday life, you can tell the same joke thrice and, thrice getting a laugh, become the life of the party. In art, though, this sort of conduct is called 'cliche.'

Joseph Brodsky

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing.

Rian Johnson

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.