I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of. — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Life and Art, once entwined, can quickly become inseparable” — David Bayles Art and Fear Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking Copy Share Image
I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy… — Vanessa Veselka Copy Share Image
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
“For years we had the persistent sensation in our life and art - John Updike's phrase - that we were just beginning.” — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
There's a difference between art and entertainment. Entertainment is really about forgetting about your life, and art is about remembering your life. — Josh Tillman Copy Share Image
I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection... the dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life's solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more… — Stephen Nachmanovitch Copy Share Image
...it is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public...should be proud… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
I have the greatest respect for Aborigine people, to whom I owe everything. The time I spent with members of the Pijantjatjara… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
The poem in Where Good Swimmers Drown are love poems. But love poems that defy the divisions between emotion and intellect, private… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself; it revolved around words like 'tortured', 'struggle'. 'pain'.. .I… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“But I think that this apparent desire to be a victim cloaks an opposing dread: that Americans are in truth profoundly, neurotically… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“Simple-lifers, Utopian socialists, spiritualists, occultists, theosophists, quietists, pacifists, futurists, cubists, zealots of all sorts in their approach to life and art, later… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“The storm of revolution,’ as Andre Chenier said, ‘blows out the torch of poetry.’ It is not for some little time that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is one question George is asked about life and art and which is more important, and George said art is more… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
“The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the… — David Bayles Copy Share Image
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life," said Simone de Beauvoir. "I want to be a woman and to be… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
“That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another.… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human… — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
I want work that, possessing as thin a membrane as possible between life and art, foregrounds the question of how the writer… — David Shields Copy Share Image
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image