Quotes About Art

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself.

It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

I have lived my whole life on the stage and screen before you. I found purpose and meaning in your response.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

I don't want to be a full-time member of Pink Floyd all my life.

Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself.

If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

I grew up watching movies that just transformed my vision, not just in cinema, in life, and you discover that this - it's an endless tool.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Now life is imitating art.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

I know that the accident of my being a photographer has made my life possible.

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.