Quotes About Art

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

I didn't have much of a life in crime as a graffiti writer.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

I studied painting and sculpting at school and became an actress by mistake .... I've had many lovers and still have romances. I am very spoiled. All my life, I've had too many admirers.

I could always live in my art but never in my life

You take music out of life and love. I don't want to be on a planet without music.

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.'

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn't something we can cut and fix. It's always in a state of flux.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

Art is life's dream interpretation.