Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.
A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a lot of questions is that part of this job and this life we've chosen is doing personal exploration in front of an audience. In a lot of ways, that's what art is: personal searching with people watching.
When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether he knows it or not, it does not matter. The word 'sannyas' does not matter; what matters is the content.
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
My life is art. Its how I express God.
Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it. I don’t feel that much anger. I equally have a lot of joy.
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life!
My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.
I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.
I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.
My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.
What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
If my 18-year-old daughter asked me whether she should lead a truth-hunting, artistic, uncompromising life as I have done, I'd say no, don't do it. It's a difficult and lonely path for a woman.
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
Before becoming an actor I kind of just wanted to paint and live somewhere and do something low-key and artistic.
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
My whole life has been singing and painting. I just do those two things.
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
