Art Quote by John Lydon Download Open image “Art should be life. It's an imitation of life. It should have some humanity in it.” — John Lydon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Humanity Imitation Imitation of life Life Nature of man Should
Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
At first, art imitates life. Then life will imitate art.Then life will find its very existence from the arts. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux. — El Anatsui Copy Share Image
Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets… — Jose Bernardo Copy Share Image
Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view,… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it. — John Lydon Copy Share Image
All the things that you would have thought would have made me a professional A1 criminal... wrong. I decided that was too lazy and… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living! — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I never wore a studded leather jacket, y'know. Ne-va! If I had had the money I wouldn't have spent it on shit like that. — John Lydon Copy Share
I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the next sixty… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose to what I do, thats why people accuse me of being calculated. it's the way I am. I always know my next move. I could never conjure up a death wish, this is all I have… — John Lydon Copy Share
For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
