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  • Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

    Art   Truth   Lying  
    The Arts, May 1923
  • Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

  • You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life.

    Source: www.identitytheory.com
  • The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

    Charles Bukowski, David Stephen Calonne (2013). “More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns”, p.239, City Lights Books
  • Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

    Life   Sad   Death  
    William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do.

    Wisdom   Art   Powerful  
  • There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability.

  • In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

    Art   Soul   Inseparable  
    Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris
  • Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

    Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)
  • Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

    "Margot Fonteyn : Autobiography‎" by Margot Fonteyn, (p. 81), 1975.
  • Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

    Art   Trying   Gaps  
    Branden Wayne Joseph, Robert Rauschenberg (2003). “Random Order: Robert Rauschenberg and the Neo-avant-garde”, p.62, MIT Press
  • In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.

    Art   Reading   Offering  
    Source: www.believermag.com
  • Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.

    Art   Axes   Ordinary  
    Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage
  • Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

    "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.
  • In my art and life, I really strive to reverse the old adage that what you see is what you get. If I can be Coyote and practice my sneak-up, I can engage the viewers from a distance with one image and lure them in for exposure to another layer, which changes the initial view into quite a different reality. After all, that is what ethnic culture is all about - or even an ongoing relationship. What you see on the surface is never the same again one you begin to plumb the depths.

    Art   Distance   Reality  
  • For me there is no difference between art and life.

  • The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

    Art   Broken   Painting  
  • Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  • I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

    Art   Thinking   Essence  
    Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse (2010). “Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement”, p.34, I.B. Tauris
  • Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

    Art   Wine   Bread  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 43-45), 1922.
  • I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.

  • With age, art and life become one.

    Art   Age   Mastery  
  • ... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

    Art   Ambition   Hysteria  
    Louise Bogan (1973). “What the woman lived: selected letters of Louise Bogan, 1920-1970”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.

    Source: www.macleans.ca
  • To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.

    Art   Mistake   Order  
    Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.373, Vintage
  • Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

  • Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

    Life   Music   Crush  
    Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage
  • To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

    Art   Wrestling   Risk  
  • Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

    Art   Blessed   Thinking  
  • The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

    Art   Lines   Should  
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