Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

You will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing.

Naomi Shihab Nye

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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

Pat Metheny
- Up
- Trying
- Art
Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

Nancy Kress
- Art
- May
- Dream
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson
- Great
- Art
- Happiness
I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

H. R. Giger
- Work
- Art
- Elegance
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

T Bone Burnett
- People
- Art
- Business
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

Nate Lowman
- Art
- Pretty
- Always