Quotes About Art

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the beauty of it.

God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art

Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

The very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art.

In art as in life, some things need no translation.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.

We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

The job of the poet is to render the world-to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.