Quotes About Art

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

You should see ballerinas' feet. They don't have nails. You see beauty, but it's unbelievable pain - with a 40-year pension! That's it, and then life is really finished.

I've found music over the course of my life is slightly more astoundingly inspiring than great cinema

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.

Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it.

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write well than it is to take out the garbage.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.