Julian Barnes Quotes

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

Art is both creation and recreation.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I sometimes set myself thinking and imagining that I find amongst men but one single art or science, and that is drawing or painting, all others being members proceeding therefrom.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

art, n. This word has no definition.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

In a lot of ways, the cool thing about modeling is that other people and artists I look up to are able to project their artistic visions onto me, and it was really exciting to be a muse in that way and carry out a vision.

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.

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