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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.
— Remy De Gourmont
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 nothingnot art, not sex
more than going to the movies. — Gore Vidal
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
Art should become as one with its surroundings.
— Isamu Noguchi
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
There is no releaseIn a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats
Keep your life as simple as possible. That leaves room for the impossible to become possible.
— Art Hochberg
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
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 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
