Quotes About Art

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

Art is the act of triggering deep memories, of what it means to be fully human.

Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.

How to Draw a Picture (XII) Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

I believe you can use photographs to meditate on and work through things in your life.

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

My life is really a history of observing forms and taking in imagery. I don't mean in a photographic way, I mean in a way of feeling them structurally.

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

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

Yes, I sold buttons to earn living. But I took pictures to keep on living. Pictures are my life – as necessary as eating or breathing.

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

I'm not a morose person; it's just that my best songs reflect on the sadder aspects of life.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.