Quotes About Art

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

The film [Dream of Life] is the way it is because it was the rhythm of my life, and also because the director and the editor are both gifted and both fine human beings.

I wish to die painting.

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

Believing that art is either worth a fortune or worth nothing at all.

Long live the car crash hearts Cry on the couch all the poets come to life Fix me in 45

I have transmitted genetic material, all I have to do between my daughters' birth and my death is to decorate my life.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

Obviously, the emotions I want to convey through music are streamed through the way I interpret life.

In the same way, I write some of my more difficult pieces when I'm at very happy stages in my life.

Music plays a big part in my life. I am a big music nerd.

Life is a big ol' canvas. And you have every combination of colors to paint with.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

For me, the music is spiritual and I think comes to life when we perform it in concert.

I paint according to the moment and the theme. I don't have any prejudice. Life concerns me.

Life too near paralyses art.

Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar's dinner, from a hundred charities?

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

If art is to survive it must describe and express people, their lives and times.

Music will always be a part of my life, but career-wise, acting is where my heart is.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.