The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life.
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.
It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
I expected more from literature than from real, naked life.
I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.
Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.
Art experts are unfailingly opposed to Art for the simple reason that they are interested in Art - but Art is not interested in Art. Art is interested in life.
Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.
To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.
You can't live and write at the same time.
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.
I'm completely unlike a lot of other performers in the past who have been forgiven or come to terms with the real world because they tell everyone their performance is 'just a show.' And so, people say, 'Oh, it's OK then. We don't care. He's not really a bad person.' It's not just a show for me. It's my life.
Art's too long and life's too short.
Is the cinema more important than life?
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
In a fire, between a Rembrandt and a cat, I would save the cat.
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
