Quotes About Art

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Dancing is my obsession. My life.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.

What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Life is short, the art long.

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Life is serious but art is fun!

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle.

Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life. It is for this reason that their recognition comes so slowly.