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Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. — Bruce Willis

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. — Richie Norton

A story is a really weird art object that should contain life but not be enslaved by the banality. — George Saunders

I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class. — Art Buchwald

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. — Erykah Badu

Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created. — Nadia Bandura

Art sometimes imitates life. When it does, science fiction presages what form that life may take. — Alan Joshua

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

Life is a canvas, so make your life as an ageless art. Everybody will be able to look at it and enjoy it. And, with time, it will get more valuable. — Debasish Mridha

Sixth, consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead. — Marcus Aurelius

My child, if you want to have a beautiful and happy life ... 2 things you need ... learn the art of love and practice it with your beloved one. — Carlos Barrios

Life is short, the art long. — Hippocrates

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. — William Butler Yeats

What interests me most is when a work of art is no longer just an object, but also touches reality and life. — Miuccia Prada

The purpose of art is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

Life isn't long enough for love and art. — W. Somerset Maugham

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. — Nina LaCour

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit. — Nick Bantock

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors. — Bertolt Brecht

Art is interested in life at the moment when the ray of power is passing through it. — Boris Pasternak

Life without industry is guilt. Industry without Art is Brutality. — John Ruskin

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience. — George A. Sheehan

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host. — Tiffany Madison

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. — D.H. Lawrence

A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves. — Quintilian

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life. — Remy De Gourmont

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take. — Alan Joshua

Life is short, art is infinite. — Oscar Wilde

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life. — Oscar Wilde

The imagination is the vehicle of sensibility. Transported by the imagination, we attain life, life itself, which is absolute art. — Yves Klein

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. — Arsene Wenger

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around. — Stephen King

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. — Charles Gwathmey

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art. — Piper Payne

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. — Carl Andre

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art. — Kirsten Dunst

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting. — Jessye Norman

The big art is our life. — Mary Caroline Richards

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

LIFE IS NEVER OVER. — Amy King

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive. — Patti Smith

My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed. — John Mayer

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Aren't we all just shooting for a life where art matters? — Lidia Yuknavitch

That's what great art does - that's why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living. — Kate Lord Brown

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. — Muriel Spark

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will. — Dion Fortune

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn. — Remy De Gourmont

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

Imagination should be integrated with life, not turned into a separate activity, art, that monopolizes one's whole existence. — Louis Dudek

Art is pain. And so is life. — Robyn Schneider

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic. — Ray Bradbury

Unless you admit it to yourself, that you don't know what is going on, will you experience what is going on. The ultimate paradox of life. — Art Hochberg

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. — Pablo Picasso

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett

Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life. — Judith Thurman

When we are attuned to our inner voice, life becomes art and art becomes life. — Yuval Ron

My whole life was absorbed with my art. I was known by my schoolmates as the kid who could draw. — Thomas Kinkade

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

Cooking is one of the oldest arts and one which has rendered us the most important service in civic life. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. — E.A. Bucchianeri

I drew no line between life and art. I was the same on- as offstage. — Patti Smith

Art has absolutely changed my life. — Peter Weller

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury

Don't play the reels of your life backwards - play them forward. — Art Hochberg

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it. — Jules Barnard

You need the art in order to love the life. — Nicholson Baker

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important. — James A. Baldwin

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. — George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art. — Agrippina Vaganova

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. — Marsha Norman

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. — Walter Lippmann

Keep your life as simple as possible. That leaves room for the impossible to become possible. — Art Hochberg

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one. — Edward Abbey

The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight — Joshua Teya

The object of art is to give life shape. — Jean Anouilh

Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her. — Jenim Dibie

I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either. — Art Modell

My art, my greatest art, is the skill to live within me. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings. — Orson Scott Card

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be. — Paul Robeson

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — William Samuel Johnson

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life. — Robert Hayden

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. — John W. Gardner

If living life is an art , let us all become an artist — Rajdeep Mittal

There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats

Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life. — Meher Baba

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist? — Eugene Manlove Rhodes

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art ... my reality has been my key. — Mirella Freni

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

I think of art as coming from daily life, daily experience. I think it's very important not to have it become work for some kind of elite circle. — Ai Weiwei

If life were organized, there would be no need for art. — Andre Gide

Art is life, plus caprice. — William Ernest Hocking

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

We find life in art and we find art in life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art. — Garrett Robinson

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails — Steve Aylett