Quotes About Art

My whole life has been nothing more than a continuous struggle against Reaction and the death of art.

Dressing is a way of life.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

In a time of destruction, create something.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

The muse doesn't come without being called.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life.

Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.