Art Quote by David Salle

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is…

— Randall Jarrell

“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of…

— Wright Morris

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

— Tyler Cowen

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it.…

— Tristan Tzara

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

— Marcel Duchamp

Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to…

— Christian Slater

There's a kind of perverseness or betrayal in that idea that art is somehow superior to life. Or that it's more important to write…

— Matthew Specktor

“The point is this. The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are the highways into the…

— N.T. Wright

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

— Allan Kaprow

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative... I want my…

— Kiki Smith

The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.

— Alain de Botton