"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on." ― Havelock Ellis Topic(s): Art More From Havelock Ellis "The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite." "The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer." "The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being’s functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship." More In Art "It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn’t own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself – a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha – to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art."― Jerry Saltz "Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples."― Franklin D. Roosevelt "A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."― Lord Chesterfield