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In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings — George Tooker

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking. — Susan Jacoby

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

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life. — Edvard Munch

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it. — Mary Cassatt

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. — Aristotle.

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

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art. — George Bernard Shaw

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible. — Michelangelo

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

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

I made a life for myself in Africa that was as far as you could possibly get from art school at Yale. — Peter Beard

I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself — Antonin Artaud

My drawing began as a way to count my blessings. To study, capture, catalog the things that, despite it all, make my life rich. — Danny Gregory

Life may as properly be called an art as any other. — Henry Fielding

Dance as if life is a work of art.
Dance as if life is a stage for a dance drama. — Debasish Mridha

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense. — Yann Martel

I paint the darkness and the silence,
You see them as stars and poetry. — Jenim Dibie

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor. — W. H. Auden

In ART as in Life the Best Way to REMEDY mistakes is to take advantage of them. — Walter Darby Bannard

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing. — Freya Stark

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along. — Al Hirschfeld

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. — Gertrude Stein

I'm as wrong about life as anyone, but I'm rarely wrong about art, she said. — Menna Van Praag

Martial arts have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. — Brandon Lee

In art as in life, some things need no translation. — Paula Vogel

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. — Allan Kaprow

I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life. — Julie Doucet

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

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life. — Thomas Mann

The pleasantest things in the world are pleasant thoughts, and the great art of life is to have as many of them as possible. — Michel De Montaigne

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. — Marc Chagall

Art is mightier than knowledge, for it wants life, and knowledge attains as its ultimate end only - annihilation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. — Roy Ascott

The art of life is to deal with one's problems as they arise; rather than destoy your spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. — Robert Harris

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art. — Swami Vivekananda

Realism in so far as it means Reality to life is always bad art. — Sherwood Anderson

Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. — Kenneth Clark

How could she have believed such an artificial life as the theatre was suitable? — Anne McCaffrey

Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent. — Tracee Ellis Ross

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. — Barbara Kingsolver

Art as the single superior counter-force against all will to negation of life, art as the anti-Christian, anti-Buddhist, anti-Nihilist par excellence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I think that if you are going to be successful as a Christian in the arts, you have to be successful in your Christian life. — Cliff Richard

The art of life lies in taking pleasures as they pass, and the keenest pleasures are not intellectual, nor are they always moral. — Aristippus

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. — Albert Camus

Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art. — Robin Black

Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time. — Amanda Palmer

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. — Saul Bellow

I actually no longer use 'art' as the framing device. I think I'm just kind of practicing things, practicing life, practicing creation. — Theaster Gates

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art. — Henry Miller

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. — Oscar Wilde

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being. — Bruce Lee

Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Life seemed too calm; people looked for unhappiness in art as one might look for a raw material in short supply. — Ilya Ehrenburg

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance. — Bono

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art. — Maya Angelou

Life is full of its disappointments, and I suppose the art of being happy is to disguise them as illusions. — Hector Hugh Munro

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love. — Marc Chagall

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art. — Martin Prechtel

If you go back to the Greeks and Romans, they talk about all three - wine, food, and art - as a way of enhancing life. — Robert Mondavi

As I looked back over my life, I realized that I enjoyed nothing
not art, not sex
more than going to the movies. — Gore Vidal

As I've gotten less righteous, less pedagogic, I have become more loving of the artificiality, the art form, the imitation of life in film. — Ira Sachs

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal — Susan Vreeland

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art. — Lana Del Rey

Art should become as one with its surroundings. — Isamu Noguchi

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic. — Patti Smith

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing. — Philip Larkin

I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life. — Clive Bell

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

French psychiatrist Pierre Janet: "Every life is a piece of art, put together with all means available." As — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living life, I mean, my two stepsons, my husband, I think every day - today interaction inspires me - as far as music goes - inspires my art. — LeAnn Rimes

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people. — Jen Knox

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up. — Stephen King

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. — Robert Henri

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art. — Toni Morrison

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

He has to perfection, M. le Comte, the art of living his private life with as much public attention as possible. — Dorothy Dunnett

In life as well as in art Zen never wastes energy in stopping to explain; it only indicates. — Alan Watts

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. — Julia Cameron

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice. — John Travolta

To be an artist, one must ... never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life — Diego Rivera

The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destroy one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially — Robert Harris

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning ... — Iris Murdoch

The one thing necessary in life, as in art is to tell the truth. — Leo Tolstoy

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. — Harry S. Truman

Learn the art of living. Make your life as an ageless art, then you will never grow older. — Debasish Mridha

O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I! — Robert Burns

Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words. — Charlie Haden

As comestibles nourish our bodies and ideas nourish our minds, so art nourishes our souls. — Alexandra York