Quotes About Art

But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.

Sometimes I'm inspired by a certain part of my life - I'm thinking about a place and I'll mix the colors from memory.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

In my work I have complete control, but about my life, I don't want to.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Dance keeps me fit! It's been a huge benefit in my life and it will forever be a part of me.

A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation.

I am still against any kind of censorship. It's a subject in my life that has been very important.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it.