Survival is important, art is secondary. If you aren't…

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

— Joni Mitchell

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.

— Tom Robbins

The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

“I have always believed in the principle that immediate survival is more important than long-term survival.”

— Jack McClelland

It's a torturous time when you learn almost everything you really have to know about survival. The important thing to remember when you are…

— Shirley Manson

Winning is important, but survival is even more important. If you don't survive, you don't get to fight the next battle.

— Donald Trump

Certainly survival is important- very important- but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving…

— Sark

Respect was one thing. Survival was another. It was important that I kept my priorities in the right order.

— Tahir Shah

As I create art, it is like a love affair. My days go by loving what I do.

— Peter Max

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

— Patrick Swift

Thought is more important than art…To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even…

— Amiri Baraka

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

— Luciano Pavarotti

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

— Lars von Trier

Time is not important, but art is.

— Edward Betts

The most important thing about Jazz at Lincoln Center is the fact that it's the first time that perhaps the most important art form…

— Rafael Vinoly