Quotes About Art

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

I have gradually confused photography with life.

My purpose is to paint the life of my people as I know it.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.

Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

The painting has a life of its own

In life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also.

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

I just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.