Quotes About Existence

The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

My trade and art is to live.

I am a result of what has happened on this planet - how could I find the art to say that? I can't, and yet, I am drawn to it because of the enormity of it. That seems really important.

Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

The visual arts must communicate to the human spirit, forcing individuals to reflect on themselves and their existence beyond their own self-interest.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.

Little fly, thy summer's play My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, Till some blind hand shall brush my wing!

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

Art is the splendor of reality before everything has become meaning.

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

Art is drama. Any relationship to art is also a relationship to death.

Art is an attempt to give substance to existence.

To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).