Popova Art Quotes & Sayings

Dialectic is the art of intellectual fencing; and it is only when we so regard it that we can erect it into a branch of knowledge. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. — Maria Popova

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered! — Charles R. Swindoll

This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each other with more integrity, more curiosity, more wholeheartedness. — Maria Popova

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. — Hugo Black

It's over when you decide it's over," Norah says. "When you call it a night. The rest is just a matter of where the sun is in the sky. That has nothing to do with us. — Rachel Cohn

Nature, of course, has its share in the life of the soul and in numerous manifestations deeply influences human life. But this natural life of the soul is peripheral, mere appendix to the material phenomena of nature. — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

Anything is art if an artist says it is. — Marcel Duchamp

There are times when creation can be achieved only through destruction. The urge to destroy is then a creative urge. — Bakunin

Artist Allen Crawford brings Whitman's undying text to new life in gorgeous hand-lettering and illustrations, transforming the 60-page poem originally published in 1855 as the centerpiece of Leaves of Grass into a breathtaking 256-page piece of art. — Maria Popova