Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
With age, art and life become one.
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.
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
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.
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.
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.
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.
I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable
Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.
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.
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