Quotes About Art

If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

What I am interested in doing is finding and expressing a new form of life

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

What the painter adds to the canvas are the days of his life. The adventure of living, hurtling toward death.

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

I don't think that my films are 'literary'; they are based on the most ordinary things of life.

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.

Live to paint, don't paint to live.

Foster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter.

Your imagination comes to life, and this, you think, is where Creation was begun.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

But we go out as a band because we enjoy each others company, first of all. And its the payoff for me, to go out and play my art and still play guitar, which is my life.

Until people see poetry as springing from all of life, they will isolate it in a creativity corner and treat it like a mascot.

I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.

Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.