Quotes About Art

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

I've always kind of ripped from real life to some degree or at least how I'm feeling in the moment.

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture.

Treat your life like something to be sculpted.

But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

Collage is an important part of my everyday life. I always did it kind of secretly but then started my blog where I post things almost daily.

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much - thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile's viewpoint.

Photography has saved my life, over and over again.

Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.

I think that writers have natural canvases, and my canvas, even in short stories, often seems to be the scope of a life.

An amateur at LIFE is an amateur at ART.

When I stopped trying to write songs, that's when I'm able to begin writing songs. You have to just use your life, and the things around you for your inspiration.

I never went to school for art or was told what to like or when. So every day is a learning process, like most of life.

The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life...

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life.

Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.

Life resembles Gobelin tapestry; you do not see the canvass on the right side; but when you turn it, the threads are visible.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely.