Jane Jacobs Quotes

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner.

Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.

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.

Painting is more important than art.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

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.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Composing is my life blood.

Imagery is like music.

Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I'm writing songs, it's very thought out and regimented.

Art and life are inseparable.

Life and art are inseparable.

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

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 think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

If you work at rap and look at it as an art, the money will come. But if you try to get the money, it'll just always be shallow.