Fran Lebowitz Quotes

It is, in fact, safe to assume that, more often than not, life imitates craft, for who among us can say that our experience does not more closely resemble a macramé plant holder than it does a painting by Seurat. When it comes to art, life is the biggest copycat in the matter of the frame.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

The power of works of art still continues to be secretly nourished by imitation... kitsch

I always felt that my work hadn't much to do with art; my admirations for other art had very little room to show themselves in my work because I hoped that if I concentrated enough the intensity of scrutiny alone would force life into the pictures. I ignored the fact that art, after all, derives from art. Now I realize that this is the case.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

I feel like art imitates life and life imitates art.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

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

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in the face of this discordance. My first book was devoted to it. The Birth of Tragedy believes in art on the background of another belief

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but bad ones vomit it forth.

Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.