Inside Outside Thinking

Happiness is an inside job. - William A Ward

We are all alike on the inside. - Mark Twain

One does not marry art. One ravishes it. - Edgar Degas

To live outside the law, you must be honest. - Bob Dylan

Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life. - Oscar Wilde

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. - Oscar Wilde

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art. - Claude Debussy

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. - Jules de Gaultier

Inside every cynical person there is a disappointed idealist. - George Carlin

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child

The awful thing about getting old is that you stay young inside. - Jean Cocteau

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. - Oscar Wilde

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions. - Albert Einstein

The Iranians and Persians are excellent at the art of negotiation. - Donald Trump

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing. - Ralph Richardson

Where beams of imagination play,
The memory's soft figures melt away. - Alexander Pope

Life beats down and crushes the soul, but art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler

He who is outside the door has already a good part of his journey behind him. - Dutch Proverb

Grantartica: The cold, isolated place where art companies dwell without funding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. - Andre Gide

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life. - Adele Brookman

Death isn't the greatest loss in life. It's what dies inside of us while we live. - Amish Saying

I walk around like everything if fine, but deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off. - Unknown

Such a figure, that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell, to look more frightful. - Charles Johnson

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. - Criss Jami

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. - Ernest Hemingway

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. - Dwight D Eisenhower

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. - J.W.N. Sullivan

I feel strongly that the visual arts are of vast importance. Of course I could be prejudiced. I am a visual art. - Kermit The Frog

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. - Terry Pratchett

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that. - John Lennon

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens. - Carl Jung

I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms. - Lauren Groff

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness. - Les Brown

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. - Oscar Ameringer

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words. - Franz Liszt