Quotes About Art

One does afford oneself the luxury to come into the studio and all day, every day, spend one's life making aesthetic propositions. What an immense luxury

The extravagant gesture is the very stuff of creation.

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

Photography is nothing-it's life that interests me.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

I made a decision that to me, photography had to be something that I could feel. I could feel in my stomach. I could not take pictures that were not connected to my own inner life.

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life. Everything we do from the way we raise our children to the way we welcome our friends is part of a large canvas we are creating.

... modern life is no longer thinkable without photography.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.