Quotes About Art

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

Realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

I think your life informs your art.

Art has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life.

I categorically resist this idea that films are supposed to be autobiographical and the only stories you tell are about your own life.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

I'm not turned away from the church through anger, although I have criticisms of it. It's through finding affirmation of life and illumination of life through creativity and art.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.

In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

Sing your life; any fool can think of words that rhyme.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.

Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.

As filmmakers, the Western is a historic, cool thing to be a part of once in your life.

Fashion it's not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it's everything that makes up your life.

Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.

I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side.

A movie takes on its own life, and you have to respect that and be open to it.