Quotes About Art

I started resenting how much art robs from life. I'd go to a party and I couldn't enjoy myself, even sexually. All I could think was how I was going to reinvent the experience into a piece of art.

Music is an expression of sound that reflects the beauty of life.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

[Pablo] Picasso really changed my life. It's strange to say so, but I started to see some Picasso paintings very early. I was very young, and he was not so much known.

Every true writer is like a bird; he repeats the same song, the same theme, all his life. For me, this theme as always been revolt.

I don't believe people when they say their songs have nothing to do with their personal life.

Mere exactitude, of which photography and moulage [life casting] are the lowest forms, does not inspire feelings.

Life is too short to play bad music

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

I was a hoodlum. I was a gang member, and art saved my life.

I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.

BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life . . . a mirror that reflects . . . the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

I feel the most connected to my art when it comes from my real life and hopefully the audience feels that.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

I think that most art is asking a question or is looking for something, looking for answers and that is what life seems to be about for most people.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.