Quotes About Art

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

The arts must study their occasions; they must stand modestly aside until they can slip in fitly into the interstices of life.

I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question.

The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.

I find that I have painted my life - things happening in my life - without knowing.

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

Music has been one of the most beautiful things in my life and will always be a very big part of who I am and what I do.

Throughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion.

Art is too long, and life is too short.

Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.

Like most modern Americans, I assume individuality is not only a fundamental value, but a goal in life, an art form.

My guitar is half my life and my wife is the other half.

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

I still write poetry from time to time, but my whole life is so music-oriented at this point that it's hard for me to even think about having other hobbies.