Art Life Quotes

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.

And the glory of character is in affronting the horrors of depravity to draw thence new nobilities of power: as Art lives and thrills in new use and combining of contrasts, and mining into the dark evermore for blacker pits of night.

Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

Art lives on constraint and dies of freedom.

Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation.

Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.

The only sensible way to regard the art life is that it is a privilege you are willing to pay for... You may cite honors and attentions and even money paid, but I would have you note that these were paid a long time after the creator had gone through his struggles.

Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. The soul is out of space and time and hence always available, an ever-present potential of our being. It is up to each of us to celebrate and to actualize our being and to turn each meal, conversation, outfit, letter, and so on, into art. Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full authentic self-expression. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

I believe that a picture, a work of art, lives and dies just as we do.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity.