Quotes About Art

In art, a dress is never just a dress; nor in life either.

My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I've been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

I can't really remember my life without movies.

I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.

Truthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

Most photographs are of life, what goes on in the world. And that's boring, generally. Life is banal, you know. Let's say that an artist deals with banality. I don't care what the discipline is.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art.

Life is greater than all art.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life.

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

I think the film [Dream of Life] is life-affirming.