Transmuting Life Into Art Quotes & Sayings

For the concept of a circuit of the blood does not destroy, but rather advances traditional medicine. — William Harvey

Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood; it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. — D.H. Lawrence

The disadvantages and dangers of the author's calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments, and maybe hardships, unimportant ... Nothing befalls him that he cannot transmute into a stanza, a song, or a story, and having done this, be rid of it. The artist is the only free man. — W. Somerset Maugham

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says. — Robin Hobb

At the gray tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low, sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. — F Scott Fitzgerald