Quotes About Art

Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.

Every artistic form reflects the dynamism that is constantly building up the life of feeling.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?

It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

We strive for beauty and balance, the sensual over the sentimental.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.

There is no greater joy in life than the joy of creating something.

Freedom of expression is a very essential condition for me to make any art. Also, it is an essential value for my life. I have to protect this right and also to fight for the possibility.

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.