Art And Life Quotes - Page 2

• I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

  David Salle

  Art, Live Life, Imagination

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• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Found Objects, Sculpture

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• For me there is no difference between art and life.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Differences

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• Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

  David Lynch

  Art, Blessed, Thinking

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• To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.

  Jane Jacobs

  Art, Mistake, Order

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.373, Vintage

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• ... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

  Louise Bogan

  Art, Ambition, Hysteria

  Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Differences, Life Is

  Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.239, City Lights Books

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• Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Life, Dance, Being Yourself

  "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.

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• Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment.

  Genesis P-Orridge

  Spiritual, Being Yourself, Art

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• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Giving, Trying

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

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• The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

  Allan Kaprow

  Art, Lines, Should

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• Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Axes, Ordinary

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

  Marian Engel

  Art, Differences, Understanding

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• Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Keys, Economic

  "Art since 1940, strategies of being". Book by Jonathan Fineberg, copyright Prentice Hall, Inc., 1995.

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• Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

  Hugh Walpole

  Art, Together, Ought

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