James Dean Quotes

Art is science made flesh.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe.

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of the very stuff that life is made of. Most of our young authors start to write a story and make a few observations from nature to add local color. The results are invariably false and hollow. Art must spring out of the fullness and richness of life.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

When you're an artist you're speaking about life, you're talking about your experience here on the planet. So essentially, that's what I do when I'm writing songs.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as a measure of their creation, have always had to do with the harmonization of what is new with what is familiar, with the balance between novelty and synthesis, with the struggle to make partial order in total chaos.... This cannot be an easy life.

Art is about the dynamics of the human experience.

Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.