Art Quote by Marcel Proust

Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.

— Joseph Brodsky

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of…

— Anonymous

When life sucks, throw yourself into art.

— Monica Drake

Art exists because life is not enough.

— Ferreira Gullar

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

— Joseph Conrad

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

— Frank Ocean

If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we…

— Mardy Grothe

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

— Daniel Breaker

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only…

— John Marin

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

— Robert Motherwell

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

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

— Fran Lebowitz