My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.
Joan Miro

We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
Jean de la Bruyere

To have the sense of creative activity is the great happiness and the great proof of being alive.
Matthew Arnold

It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Federico Fellini

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Earl Warren

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
Klaus Kinski

I can throw out any man alive.
Johnny Bench

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Christiane Amanpour

After a while in marriage, it doesn't work anymore. There is something missing, there is something wrong. There are few marriages that stay alive forever. We like something, and after a while, we hate what we used to love.
Monica Bellucci

I think Elvis would be alive today, probably, if he had been allowed to mix and mingle with his fans. I think it was a great cross for him to bear that he couldn't get out and be with his fans.
Minnie Pearl

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
Marianne Faithfull

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
Jacques Barzun

I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.
Andrew Wyeth

The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
David Herbert Lawrence

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
Oliver Goldsmith

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.
Edward Albee

For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
Brian May

To work is to feel alive.
Tony Bennett