Quotes About Art

The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists, man and woman, each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living, breathing, ever-changing, piece of art with an identity of its own.

Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.

All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death. God is Jesus.

My body is a journal in a way. It's like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

Without music, life would be an error.

What we play is life.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Without music, life would be a mistake.... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Art has no enemy except ignorance.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.

The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.