Life as Art Quotes

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.

Our lives are songs; God write the words And we set them to music at pleasure; And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad, As we choose to fashion the measure.

The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

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?

It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and white and tedious. The life that Shakespeare was living was the only life he had, and he had to use it to create what he was doing.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.

Even as a teenager we got interested in the Beats, Dada, and Surrealism, and so on. What drew us to those was that their lives were their art. It wasn't something they did separately. Reading biographies of artists of that kind was what was fascinating to me, more than the stuff they made. We became convinced that life and art is really the same thing.

My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form.

I think my stance and my way of life is my most important art.

...start thinking of yourself as an artist and your life as a work-in-progress. Works-in-progress are never perfect. But changes can be made...Art evolves. So does life. Art is never stagnant. Neither is life. The beautiful, authentic life you are creating for yourself is your art. It's the highest art.

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

Your life is your art.

It is not common for people to think of their own lives as creations. You are not encouraged to have with your own life the kind of relationship a creator has with his or her vision. But your life can be a creation.

The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art.

I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.

Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.

Well, I enjoy my life. You know, I think life is an art, and that one has to live it as an art. That's your choice.

Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

The work of art of the future will be the construction of a passionate life.

I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

I think my life is a movie and your life reflects your work.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.