Activity Quote by Patrick Swift

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

— James A. Baldwin

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

— Henry Miller

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

— Robert Motherwell

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is…

— Randall Jarrell

I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.

— A. S. Byatt

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life.

— Henry Moore

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

— Jenny Lewis

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

— Gertrude Stein

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points…

— Henry Miller

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

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

— Kimon Nicolaides