Quotes About Art

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.

No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.

As a collector, you will discover that surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul.

You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

Art exists because life is not enough.

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

I get the most joy in life out of music.

The fight for photography became my life.

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

OPERA, n. A play representing life in another world, whose inhabitants have no speech but song, no motions but gestures and no postures but attitudes.

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

What makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art.

Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.

I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.

There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects

Acting is really only part of my life. I'm addicted to it.

You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.