Best grief & art Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: King Henry V: Third Series

“Love, Hope, and Joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, Fear, and Grief, the family of pain, These mix'd with art, and to due bounds confin'd Make and maintain the balance of the mind.”

Mind Art Pain Joy Hate Pleasure Grief Balance Fairs Train Bounds Dues Hope Love

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton

“Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.”

Art Enough Grief Thee Knees Wanton

Book:The dramatic and poetical works of Robert Greene & George Peele: with memoirs of the authors and notes

Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Robert Greene & George Peele: with memoirs of the authors and notes

“Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities.”

Heart Art Passion Grief Clouds Dust Depressing Frost Infirmity

Book:Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And, Suspiria de Profundis

Source: Confessions of an English Opium-eater: And, Suspiria de Profundis

“How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?”

“I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.”

Art Found Language Grief Education Mines Development Activity Including I Realized Classroom Coffins Burial Language Arts Language Development

Author:Mem Fox

“If trees can create art, if they can encircle the globe seven times in one year, if prisoners can grow plants and raise frogs, then perhaps there are other static entities that we hold inside ourselves, like grief, like addictions, like racism, that can also change.”

Ifs Years Art Grows Grief Tree Racism Raises Plant Seven Addiction Prisoner Entity Globes Frogs Static

Author:Nalini Nadkarni

“I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.”

Knows Art Night Names Grief Darkness Divine Strange Flower Pure Mountain Rain Deception Flames Rays Magnificent Herbs

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

Heart Art Care Dies Fall Grief Music Sweet Comfort Musician Music Is Killing Hearing Orpheus Sweet Music Hearing Music

Author:William Shakespeare

“Evolution tells us how to survive; art tells us how it's possible still to live even while knowing that we and all we love will someday vanish. It says there's beauty even in grief, freedom even inside the strictures of form and of life. What's liberating isn't what's simplest; it's the ability to include more and more shadows, colors and possibilities inside any moment's meeting of self and world.”

World Art Stills Self Moments Form Ability Grief Knowing Possibility Color Evolution Shadow Meetings Someday Simplest Liberating

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“We need grief as a precursor to emotional refreshment, and so consume it vicariously in somewhat titrated but powerful enough form through engagement with the arts.”

Needs Art Enough Form Powerful Grief Emotional Engagement Refreshments Precursor

Author:Catherine Wilson

“It's Steven's [Sebring] view of what he saw in traveling and working with me. But on another scale, I think the film [Dream of Life] is very humanistic: It touches on motherhood, death, birth, art, laundry, anger against the Bush administration... While I don't think it's the kind of film where one goes to find some of the darker, edgier aspects of life, the film was born of grief.”

Thinking Kind Art Dream Film Life Is Born Views Grief Saws Birth Aspect Motherhood Scales Administration Laundry Aspects Of Life Humanistic

Author:Patti Smith

“In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.”

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!”

“Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!”

Writing Firsts Wells Art Desire Artist Grief Virtue Achieve Effects Terrible Prove Vices Temptation Aesthetic Mastery Idealism Outrage Sinister

Book:I Married a Communist

Source: I Married a Communist

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .”

Source: The Family Shakspeare ... By T. Bowdler ... Sixth Edition

“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?”

Ifs Way Humans Art Desire Lost Human Beings Grief Behinds Existence Elements Art Is Angry Love Life Desire Love

Author:Adrienne Rich

“We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.”

Ifs Firsts May Art Sometimes Stories Force Lines Levels Grief Legs Love Story Flats Crash Aspire Soar Landing Railway Levels Of Life

Author:Julian Barnes

“We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force the issue and those who must use persuasion. In the second case, they always come to grief, having achieved nothing; when, however, they depend on their own resources and can force the issue, then they are seldom endangered.”

Art War Use Purpose Force Grief Cases Issues Achieve Depends Resources Persuasion Art Of War

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!”

Men May Art Pain Joy Grief Prove Philosophical Vain Schemes Mice Gang Lanes Foresight Best Laid Plans

Book:The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

Source: The Best Laid Schemes: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Burns

“Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die.”

“Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away. Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay; Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away. Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway, And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away. Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away. Do rays of loftier glory round thee play? Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away! Whate'er thou art, wher'er thy footsteps stray, Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.”

“How can you and I really expect to glide naively through life, as if to say, 'Lord, give me experience, but not grief, not sorrow, not pain, not opposition, not betrayal, and certainly not to be forsaken. Keep from me, Lord, all those experiences which made Thee what Thou art! Then, let me come and dwell with Thee and fully share Thy joy!'”

“When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the artist down to the countryside of grief, and that descent, resisted so long proves invigorating. . . . As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.”

Years Long Art Able Artist Grief Painting Discipline Sorrow Prove Twenties Pursue Thirty Carrie Sculpture Thirty Years Countryside Composing Descent Invigorating

Author:Robert Bly

“I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.”

Men Art Suffering Grief Emotion Type Sorrow Capable Tests Supreme Great Art

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Our griefs, as well as our joys, owe their strongest colors to our imaginations. There is nothing so grievous to be borne that pondering upon it will not make it heavier; and there is no pleasure so vivid that the animation of fancy cannot liven it.”

Wells Art Joy Imagination Pleasure Grief Color Fancy Strongest Vivid Animation Pondering

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

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