Art Life Quotes

How do you capture the drama of a Rembrandt painting in a movie? How do you feel that moment that they captured in two hours? I kind of fell into it and at one point, I decided I wanted to live an art life; I wanted to tell stories. I came to New York, and did what most people do - you become a PA and run and get coffee and pay your dues and learn until your opportunity comes.

Life imitates art and back around.

I am ready to rot in jail that art may live.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

I was walking down a street and after his death and saw a billboard on the side of a brick wall for Van's shoes. It was a picture of Hopper's face, and all it said was, 'Hopper Lives.' So I think he's still part of youth culture. There are lessons to be learned from Hopper about being a young person who wants to live the art life in America.

With age, art and life become one.

Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together.

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV?

I feel like life imitates art, or art imitates life. I always take on roles that I'm passionate about.

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

Art informs life in so many ways, and vice versa.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.

The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

In my inner soul art and life are inseparable.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.

Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work. Help me in saying it, to understand it.