Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
~ Yu Cao - [Arts and Artists]

Ask with urgency and passion.
~ Arthur James Balfour - [Ask]

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek; and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you. For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. [Matthew 7:7-8]
~ Bible - [Ask]

Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.
~ Thea Alexander - [Ask]

I am an artistà I am here to live out loud.
~ Emile Zola - [Arts and Artists]

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
~ Jean Cocteau - [Asceticism]

If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
~ Albert Einstein - [Ask]

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Asceticism]

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
~ William Wordsworth - [Arts and Artists]

Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
~ Louis Armstrong - [Ask]

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
~ Bernard M. Baruch - [Ask]

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
~ Peter F. Drucker - [Ask]

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright - [Arts and Artists]

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.
~ Stewart Emery - [Ask]

The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Asceticism]

The main motive for ''nonattachment'' is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.
~ George Orwell - [Asceticism]

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
~ Jeremy Bentham - [Asceticism]

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
~ Mao Zedong - [Arts and Artists]

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
~ Denis Diderot - [Asceticism]

You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it.
~ Barbara De Angelis - [Ask]