Diagrams Quote by Philip Guston

I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors.…

— Philip Guston

I paint life as I would like it to be,

— Norman Rockwell

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

— Viggo Mortensen

You can't make either life or art, you have to work in the hole in between, which is undefined. That's what makes the adventure…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a…

— Audre Lorde

No, the thing to do is try to make a painting that will be alive in your own lifetime.

— Marcel Duchamp

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life.…

— Etty Hillesum

You need to live life to be able to have something to draw from.

— Sissy Spacek

The art of living is simply the art of using energy in an intelligent and creative way.

— Laura Huxley

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living…

— Carl Andre

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

— Henry Moore

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

— William Shatner