Morton Feldman Quotes

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

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon.

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

Art without life is a poor affair.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

Art is a reflection of everything that impacts your life.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

Art is a way of survival.

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

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

Art is the expression of a man's life, of his mode of being, of his relations with the universe, since it is, in fact, man's inarticulate answer to the universe's unspoken message.

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

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.