Quotes About Art

Never create anything, it will be misinterpreted, it will chain you and follow you for the rest of your life.

Music has always been part of my life.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

I can't draw a straight line to save my life. I just can't draw.

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

Art is life, plus caprice.

I get so confused about life photography art.

We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

Being a poet is not a job or a profession but a way of life.

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence.

I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

To know music is to transfer it to life.

A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.

Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

Whatever I watched, whatever I loved in 36 years of life on Earth, probably had some influence on me.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.