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Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind, born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality, in our mind. (Magdalena Abakanowicz)
For purposes of action, nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. (Henri-Frederic Amiel)
The quality of life is determined by its activities. (Aristotle)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. (Aristotle)
Action to an idea is like language to a child learning to speak. (Kathleen Arnason)
Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short. (Geoffrey Ballard)
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there. (Matsuo Basho)
It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action. (Al Batt)
Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth. (Max Beerbohm)
Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last. (Nicolas Boileau)
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. (Charlotte Bronte)
The food of hope is meditative action. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen. (Harry Callahan)
Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech; in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow, and precipitates itself therefrom. (Thomas Carlyle)
It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it. (Alexis Carrel)
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. (Carlos Castaneda)
One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss. (Marc Chagall)
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. (Edwin H. Chapin)
Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do. (Winston Churchill)
I have lived to know that the great secret of happiness is this: never suffer your energies to stagnate. The old adage of too many irons in the fire, conveys an abominable lie. You cannot have too many – poker, tongs and all – keep them all going. (Adam Clarke)
In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking. (Georges Clemenceau)
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The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. (Confucius)
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. (Benjamin Disraeli)
If I rest, I rust. (Placido Domingo)
He not busy being born is busy dying. (Bob Dylan)
Seeming to do is not doing. (Thomas Edison)
The legs are the wheels of creativity. (Albert Einstein)
Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. (George Eliot)
Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries. (George Eliot)
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The dualities in the activity of making art are endless... such as the conjunction of inarticulate form with aesthetic form, or the idea and the artifact. (Olinda Everett)
Concepts can never be presented to me merely, they must be knitted into the structure of my being, and this can only be done through my own activity. (M. P. Follett)
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. (Anatole France)
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. (Benjamin Franklin)
I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself. (Buckminster Fuller)
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame. (Mahatma Gandhi)
Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen. (Robert Genn)
The most decisive actions of our life are most often the unconsidered actions. (Andre Gide)
Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go dare before you die. / Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Do rather than don't. (Irwin Greenberg)
Painting is an act, not a conversation. (Andrew Hamilton)
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. (William Hazlitt)
Never confuse motion with action. (Ernest Hemingway)
The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of being, a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence. In such moments activity is inevitable, and whether this activity is with brush, pen, chisel, or tongue, its result is but a by-product of the state, a trace, the footprint of the state. (Robert Henri)
One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action. (Eric Hoffer)
Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Take an object. Do something to it. Do something else to it. Do something else to it. (Jasper Johns)
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action. (Immanuel Kant)
What you do when you don't have to, determines what you will do when you can no longer help it. (Rudyard Kipling)
Each instant of his life, a task, he never rests... (James Kirkup)
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal, the intensity gets lost very quickly, and I have to look for new ways. (Paul Klee)
There is not first understanding and then action. When you understand, that very understanding is action. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
The different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. (Barbara Kruger)
Be liberal in deeds and conservative in thought. (Janine Kulbacki)
Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged. (Dalai Lama)
No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. (Letitia Landon)
It is surprising what people can do when they have to, and how little most people will do when they don't have to. (Walter Linn)
In art, the genuine creator is not just a gifted being, but a person who has succeeded in arranging for their appointed end, a complex of activities, of which the work is the outcome. (Henri Matisse)
It is better to paint for one minute a day than to think about it for 24 hours a day... (Andrew McDermott)
It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. (Moliere)
Art is a continuous activity with no separation between past and present. (Henry Moore)
Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy. (Grandma Moses)
I like to use my hands and make things... It might seem pretty stupid or pointless but that doesn't matter... some of the most interesting work is the stuff that starts like that – out of a raw need for activity. (Bruce Nauman)
Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all. (Norman Vincent Peale)
One must act in painting as in life, directly. (Pablo Picasso)
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us. (Plotinus)
Idle hands are the Devil's work-list. (Gail Wiseman Reed)
Draw this line, only as you feel it to be the most worthwhile act of your life. (Paul Reps)
The path to success is to take massive, determined action. (Anthony Robbins)
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster. (Theodore Roosevelt)
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. (Rumi)
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Action is eloquence. (William Shakespeare)
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Most people engage in activities that are tension-relieving rather than goal-achieving. (Brian Tracy)
When you are what you do, then when you don't you're not. (unknown)
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. (John Updike)
When I go into a painting, I'm sort of in its thrall. And it's not so much about me – but about what's happening in that painting. (David Urban)
As a matter of selective necessity, man is an agent. He is, in his own apprehension, a centre of unfolding impulsive activity - "teleological activity." He is an agent seeking in every act the accomplishment of some concrete, objective, impersonal end. By force of being such an agent, he is possessed of a taste for effective work, and a distaste for futile effort. (Thorstein Veblen)
Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen: even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. (Oscar Wilde)
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding. (H. H. Williams)
The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)
Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. (Lin Yutang)
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