Quotes About Art

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

Is the cinema more important than life?

Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

Not everyone in Italy may know how to cook, but nearly everyone knows how to eat. Eating in Italy is one more manifestation of the Italian's age-old gift of making art out of life.

Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.

The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life

I'm always thinking about songs, I'm thinking of life maybe a little bit more lyrically than a computer programmer or someone like that.