Quotes About Existence

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

Art has to address eternal issues.

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

There exists no more difficult art than living.

Existence is a Fact, Living is an Art

What thou art, that thou art.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Art is inextricably tied to man's survival - not to his physical survival, but to that on which his physical survival depends: to the preservation and survival of his consciousness.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

...how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can in art?

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

I often come across this question. "Which is the best camera in the world?". I would always say, "Well. You already own two of it, since your birth.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.