Quotes About Art

Every artist - even if they do Superman, they do Batman, and things like that - they are speaking about his life. Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

Art is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

An authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life.

I loved to press the shutter, to freeze time, to turn little slices of life into rectangle rife with metaphor.

By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the science can know.

I'm amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

"The meaning of culture" is nothing less than the conduct of life itself, fortified, thickened, made more crafty and subtle, by contact with books and with art.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

A face painted in a picture gives a pitiful parody of life. . . but a painted surface lives.

Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

Photography is about savoring life at 1/100th of a second.

Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.