Quotes About Art

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Journalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

A controller doesn't trust his/her ability to live through the pain and chaos of life. There is no life without pain just as there is no art without submitting to chaos.

In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are empty.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.

I can't imagine my life without the extraordinary bebop jazz revolution in New York in late '40s and '50s.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

Music goes deeper than emotion into the energies that animate our psychic life.

Music plays a very important role in my life. I'm a frustrated musician. I play the drums.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

All I do is make photos. It's my life.

I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.