Art Quote by Pat Conroy

“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 may imitate art – but it usually falls short of it.”

— Anthony Horowitz

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

— Richard Matturro

“...the special quality of works of Art being to produce the momentary conviction that anything else whatever could not possibly be so good.”

— M.P. Shiel

“The function of art is to make people like life more than they do.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“At the point in his lecture where he was saying that the representative element in a work of art is always irrelevant, that for…

— Joy Williams

“Build your life as if it were a work of art.”

— Ernest Boyer Jr

“I don’t think that art can change the world. But at least art can help us to unveil life.”

— Eugene Lim

“It's far more difficult to disfigure a great work of art than to create one.”

— Marcel Proust

“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“We are often more a piece of work than a work of art.”

— R.J. Grunewald

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

— William Bolitho