Art Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“None can imitate life without the intermediary of art.”

— William Bolitho

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty,…

— Albert Einstein

“To create works of art meant no less to him than to paint life, not mere reality, but the principle of life.”

— Ingo Walther

“Life is an art the one cannot erase”

— Anonymous

“Art is art and life is life, but to live life artistically; that is the art of life”

— Peter Altenberg

What is art but the denial of life?

— Fernando Pessoa

“By trying to export myself into a place that didn't fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could…

— Jonathan Lethem

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

— Robert Genn

“The purpose of art is to provide what life does not.”

— Tom Robbins

“Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.”

— Richard Matturro

“art is worthless unless it plants a measure of splendor in people's hearts”

— Taha Muhammad Ali

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.

— Joyce Carol Oates