Art Quote by Iris Murdoch

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no…

— Iris Murdoch

One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on…

— Marilyn French

Life is like art - it is all about interpretation.

— Robert Holden

“I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.”

— Clive Bell

“Art is not life, and life is not art; but the beauty and horror of the human condition exists between the two.”

— H.G. Mewis

“Art can model the more difficult dynamic of transfiguring one’s life, but at some point the dynamic reverses itself: life models, or forces, the…

— Christian Wiman

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by…

— Jean Anouilh

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

— Peter Altenberg

“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language…

— Alain de Botton

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

— Marcel Duchamp

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

— Antoni Tapies

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