Quotes About Art

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

Art's too long and life's too short.

Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.

Life is about women, gigs, an' bein' creative.

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

I think fashion is just part of my life and if it hadn't of been fashion then it would have been something else.

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

Between my music, my art, and my wrestling - and having the Hardy girls and a great wife - my life is complete.

I have consecrated my life to changing matter into spirit with the hope of someday seeing it all.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

In India, the films are not looked upon just as entertainment. They're a way of life.

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to see that doubt, fear, and indirectness are eternal aspects of the creative path.

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

It is very difficult to make the ideas in my head come to life, but what is harder is making them look effortless.