Quotes About Art

I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not only space but opened my mind.

I did exhibitions with the Surrealists (in Paris, in 1929) because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions.

I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

It's [Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You"] been one of my favorite songs for my entire life.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look.

I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

As a young person, you have no fixed address, no studio, no money for materials, so I made things sort of on the run. That life doesn't favor the stability and spatial demands of painting.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.