Art And Life Quotes

• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Nelly Furtado

  Art, Together, Live Well

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Imitation, Imitating

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

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• Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

  John W. Gardner

  Life, Wisdom, Art

  "Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe". Book by Matthew M. Radmanesh (p.269), May, 2006.

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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

  Jean Paul

  Art, Wine, Bread

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 43-45), 1922.

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• In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Soul, Inseparable

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

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• With age, art and life become one.

  Georges Braque

  Art, Age, Mastery

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• 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.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Wisdom, Art, Powerful

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

  William Goldman

  Life, Sad, Death

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Ann Brashares

  Art Life, Fairs

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• This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Distinction, Interest

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• To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

  Andy Greenwald

  Art, Wrestling, Risk

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• Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Art, Subjective, Reserves

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• The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Art, Cinema, Film

  "Godard". Book by Richard Roud, 1970.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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

  Eva Hesse

  Art, Thinking, Essence

  Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris

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• Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Art, Trying, Gaps

  Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.62, MIT Press

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