Art Quote by Randall Jarrell

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

— Joseph Brodsky

A work of art is great to the extent that to encounter it is to be changed.

— Wendy Beckett

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless,

— Robert Genn

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

I come from a generation where you put the art out and had the luxury to sit back and watch the world deconstruct it,…

— M.I.A

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

— Asger Jorn

It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.

— William James

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

“Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of…

— Wright Morris

There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never…

— Carrie Coon

What is art but the denial of life?

— Fernando Pessoa

The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

— Okakura Kakuzo