Top 1200 Art And Life Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The object of art is to give life shape.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

Seattle has a long tradition of celebrating local and non-local art - from the Burke and Seattle Art Museums to the Asian Art Museum.

When we separate music from life we get is art.

If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?

Life is short, but art lives forever.

Life and art are not two different things.

The object of Art is to give life a shape.

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the creative or producing, work-making activity of the human mind. By Poetry I mean, not the particular art which consists in writing verses, but a process both more general and more primary: that intercommunication between the inner being of things and the inner being of the human Self which is a kind of divination (as was realized in ancient times; the Latin vates was both a poet and a diviner). Poetry, in this sense, is the secret life of each and all of the arts.

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

Art indeed is long, but life is short.

Life too near paralyses art.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.

When we separate music from life we get art.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

Poetry and art are the breath of life to her.

I think when something becomes a comfortable genre, it's against what street art stood for in the beginning - breaking out of genres and taking art out of galleries. Now street art is in the gallery, and it's all made up into a nice, packaged concept.

I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted to your interests than they would be with a regular search engine. If you choose a topic on our site that you're interested in, such as art, Web sites related to art appear, as if you're leafing through an art magazine.

The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for the best guide to books is a book itself. It clasps hands with a thousand other books.

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle...The encounter with the truth of art happens in the estranging language and images which make perceptible, visible, and audible that which is no longer, or not yet, perceived, said, and heard in everyday life.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

I think hope is key, in life and in art.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum

The art of life is to live in the present moment

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

Art is the flower... life the green leaf.

The art of life is loving and listening to one another.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive.

My life is art. Its how I express God.

Art springs from life but it doesn't mean we have to be tyrannized by it.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

You need the art in order to love the life.

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

As a composer, I believe that music has the power to inspire a renewal of human consciousness, culture, and politics. And yet I refuse to make political art. More often than not political art fails as politics, and all too often it fails as art. To reach its fullest power, to be most moving and most fully useful to us, art must be itself.

What is the art experience about? Really, I'm not interested in making Art at all. I never, ever, think about it. To say the word Art, it's almost like a curse on art. I do know that I want to try to get closer to myself. The older I get, the more indications I have about what it is to get closer to yourself. You try less hard. I just want to be.

Although photography generates works that can be called art-it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives aesthetic pleasure-photography is not, to begin with, an art form at all. Like language, it is a medium in which works of art (among other things) are made.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

The art of life is to show your hand.

Art is not some fun add-on to life.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Life imitates art and back around.

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me.

I know that I am an excellent live performer. I know that I have spent my life paying attention to my art form, developing my art form, worrying about my show and what it is I'm bringing to people, making sure that I give them a fine trade. They get a two-hour show, sometimes a three-hour show, for a decent price.

Economy is the art of making the most of life.

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

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.