Art lives where absolute freedom is because when it is not, there can be no creativity. Votes: 3
Bruce LeeArt is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerLife is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult. Votes: 0
HippocratesAll the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life. Votes: 0
Mary Caroline RichardsRemember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life. Votes: 0
Robert James WallerArt is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheWhen thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusThere is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability. Votes: 0
Marian EngelEntertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death Votes: 0
Dean CavanaghThou art imperishable. Thou art changeless reality. Thou art the source of life. Votes: 0
Swami PrabhavanandaLife is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. Votes: 0
Henry FuseliArt is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life Votes: 0
Pavel FlorenskyArt pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality. Votes: 0
Langdon Brown GilkeyNo art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people. Votes: 0
Meridel Le SueurIf you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art. Votes: 0
Miguel Angel RuizArt consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life. Votes: 0
Stanley KubrickIt is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. Votes: 0
Lionel TrillingAn authentic and ingenious account of the ingeniously counterfeit in art and in life. Votes: 0
D. J. EnrightTruthfullness to life-both fantasy life and factual life-is the basis of all great art. Votes: 0
Maurice SendakAny art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. Votes: 0
Barnett NewmanArt imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. Votes: 0
Bruce WillisSurrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. Votes: 0
Brad HollandEvery human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. Votes: 0
Miguel Angel RuizThe work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life. Votes: 0
Raoul VaneigemIf art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions. Votes: 0
Catherine Drinker BowenReligion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life. Votes: 0
Anagarika GovindaLife is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art. Votes: 0
Claude SimonArt is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life. Votes: 0
John French SloanI had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! Votes: 0
Donald FagenI cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself Votes: 0
Antonin ArtaudThe very freedom and expressiveness we find missing in life we find present in art. Votes: 0
Nicholas WolterstorffIn life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. Votes: 0
Robert GennHow life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. Votes: 0
Stephen KingThe 2 master skills of life are: The Science of Achievement and The Art of Fulfillment. Votes: 0
Tony RobbinsJournalism (definition): The art, or science, of representing life as a series of clichés. Votes: 0
Richard SummerbellMy art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. Votes: 0
Carl AndreI endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful. Votes: 0
Gary HollandWriting, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. Votes: 0
Hubert Selby, Jr.Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously. Votes: 0
Vince StaplesWe live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonFlorence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself. Votes: 0
Roberto CavalliArt is life, life is life, but to lead life artistically is the art of life. Votes: 0
Peter AltenbergThe art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece. Votes: 0
Wilferd PetersonLife as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time. Votes: 0
Amanda PalmerArt is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way. Votes: 0
Henry MillerThe purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it. Votes: 0
Yevgeny ZamyatinFoster peace in your own life and then apply the Art to all that you encounter. Votes: 0
Morihei UeshibaScience is a line, art a superficies, and life or the knowledge of God, a solid. Votes: 0
Coventry PatmoreIf you trusted that your art was going to support your life, how would you live? Votes: 0
Danielle LaPorteI hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota. Votes: 0
Gustave CourbetArt should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it. Votes: 0
John LydonI believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. Votes: 0
Daniel PinkwaterI am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life. Votes: 0
Eva HesseLife has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeWe cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation. Votes: 0
Asger JornGood art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions. Votes: 0
Richard BlancoIt's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life. Votes: 0
Sebastian BachThe sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterEach good thought that you have encouraged and nourished is your life's true work of art. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyThe line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. Votes: 0
Allan KaprowWe must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. Votes: 0
Jack KornfieldCreating music, visual art, producing music and film are always at the forefront of my life. Votes: 0
Matt SorumYou cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit. Votes: 0
Nick BantockArt sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. Votes: 0
Alan JoshuaAccreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life. Votes: 0
Lawrence WeinerIf living Life is an art, then Only You can be the artist to make it colorful. Votes: 0
Sagar GosaviArt! What a concept! It saved my life! A place where you can do as you please! Votes: 0
William T. WileyIn ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them. Votes: 0
Walter Darby BannardThe momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Votes: 0
Francis BaconLife is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. Votes: 0
Charles de LintTake care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. Votes: 0
Robert FrostThe more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home. Votes: 0
Burt ReynoldsThe art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauArt is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. Votes: 0
Robert HaydenThe art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us Votes: 0
Gloria SteinemArt is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. Votes: 0
Boris PasternakI know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, Votes: 0
James AgeeThere is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. Votes: 0
Richard ForemanThe cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Votes: 0
Jean-Luc GodardMarriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art. Votes: 0
Jonathan SacksI have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key. Votes: 0
Mirella FreniArt has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things. Votes: 0
Roger ScrutonLess disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best. Votes: 0
Marcel ProustPerhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. Votes: 0
Frances Ann LebowitzLife is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. Votes: 0
Oscar WildePerhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it. Votes: 0
Fran LebowitzTo live an art-filled life, one must be willing to try new things & accept that things change. Votes: 0
Lee HammondArt has no immediate future, because all art is collective and there is no more collective life. Votes: 0
Simone WeilThroughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. Votes: 0
Gloria VanderbiltMy goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. Votes: 0
Jimi HendrixIt's been fun. I've had a lucky life. Art has made me pull the best out of myself. Votes: 0
LeRoy NeimanThe supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring. Votes: 0
James JoyceThe training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art. Votes: 0
Dalai LamaThe most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Votes: 0
PythagorasO Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I! Votes: 0
Robert BurnsDo not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art. Votes: 0
Gustave FlaubertThe human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadI've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. Votes: 0
Roger DaltreyPolitics may be the art of the possible, but at least in life, give the impossible a go. Votes: 0
Tony BlairArt isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. Votes: 0
Arthur SymonsIn life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. Votes: 0
Alan WattsThe writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinIn life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. Votes: 0
Maggie NelsonArt is more than a product of your efforts - it should be about feeling, life, attitude, soul. Votes: 0
Sergei BongartThis is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettI've always been a sponge, just absorbing whatever I see, whether it's in daily life or in art. Votes: 0
Tomi UngererIn art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. Votes: 0
Patti SmithFor Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art. Votes: 0
Shunryu SuzukiA great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life. Votes: 0
Issey MiyakeWoman is mistress of the art of completely imbittering the life of the person on whom she depends. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheArt is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization. Votes: 0
John French SloanLike art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. Votes: 0
Karen ArmstrongOf a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauTo discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom. Votes: 0
James JoyceMany artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish. Votes: 0
Marilyn FergusonPainting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. Votes: 0
Robert RauschenbergLeo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want. Votes: 0
Nicholas MeyerNo, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know. Votes: 0
Emma AndersonO human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee! Votes: 0
Bryan ProcterTo express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art. Votes: 0
Jane HeapO Brother, Where Art Thou?' was this role that utterly fell into my lap and changed my life. Votes: 0
Tim Blake NelsonIt is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. Votes: 0
Freya StarkOur business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this. Votes: 0
John CageSociety is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. Votes: 0
Letitia Elizabeth LandonArt - my slats! Guts! Guts! Life! Life! I can paint with a shoe-string dipped in pitch and lard. Votes: 0
George LuksArt should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better. Votes: 0
William QuigleyArt is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. Votes: 0
Joseph PlaskettWhat makes daily life interesting is that we try to transform it to something that is close to art. Votes: 0
Arsene WengerLife is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning Votes: 0
Charles Rennie MackintoshI don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. Votes: 0
David LynchI am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. Votes: 0
Robert HenriThe great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauI believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. Votes: 0
Arsene WengerTea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. Votes: 0
Okakura KakuzoArt is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. Votes: 0
Henry MooreArt is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinMy age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life. Votes: 0
Paul CezanneAn artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art. Votes: 0
Ad ReinhardtIn life learn art, in the artwork learn life. If you see the one correctly you see the other also. Votes: 0
Friedrich HolderlinLife is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life. Votes: 0
John Edgar ParkSo, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long. Votes: 0
George SaundersI just had to be strong enough to allow myself to be vulnerable. Great Lesson. For art and for life. Votes: 0
Jane LynchArt is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose. Votes: 0
Evelyn de MorganThe more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art. Votes: 0
Kirsten DunstThe stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeIn another life, I would love to be the art guy - a production designer or a maybe even a composer. Votes: 0
Fede AlvarezI don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life. Votes: 0
Frank StellaIt is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man. Votes: 0
Virginia WoolfI start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life. Votes: 0
Jean-Michel BasquiatThou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life. Votes: 0
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