Quotes About Art

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life.

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.

Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over. Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived... and the picture that fights for its own life.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Movement is the translation of life, and if art depicts life, movement should come into art, since we are only aware of living because it moves.

For me, animation is the caricature of life. It's something that we create, from the ground up.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

My life is art. Its how I express God.