Quotes About Art

Trying to say something is all you got in life.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

In every painting a whole is mysteriously enclosed, a whole life of tortures, doubts, of hours of enthusiasm and inspiration.

I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.

Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

We don't all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even 'Little Red Riding Hood.' The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

You suffer as an actor. It's difficult to be an actor and live a good life, especially today.

The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich.

The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published in thick books that future generations can see how horrible life was.

Art doesn't begin with a brush and a palette, but with the artist's ability to perceive life. You have to learn how to live before you can learn how to paint.

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

The Artist should not forget his mission, perhaps the most religious of all, of sustaining faith in the worthwhileness of art and thus of life.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.