Lifeless Quotes

• Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Artist
  • Beauty
  • Ideal

• Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Lines
  • Straight
  • Mechanisms

• A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare . . . There is nobody that is willing to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing even as it is; so they boil it, and roast it, and alter it by fire and medicines, as it were, changing and quenching the slaughtered gore with thousands of sweet sauces, that the palate being thereby deceived may admit of such uncouth fare.

  

  Plutarch
  • Changing
  • Stomach
  • Human Body

• It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Enjoyment
  • Activities
  • Lifeless

• All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Ethics
  • Lifeless

• If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • Perfect
  • Museum
  • Lifeless

• I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  

  Nancy Lancaster
  • Period
  • Shade
  • Lifeless

• Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Running
  • Imagination
  • Prayer

• A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Sadness
  • Vitality
  • Broken Heart

• Writing to you like this makes me feel that you are still alive. It’s an illusion I’ve noticed before—words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It lasts only while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or the pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Writing
  • Illusion
  • Ghosts