Living Art Quotes

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

Art should be created for life, not for the museum.

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he is dancing. Nothing is left of his art except the pictures and the memories--when his dancing days are over.

Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

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!

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

Your home showcases your past, your present, and leaves enough room for your future. It's art that you live in!

Another thing about creation is that every day it is like it gave birth, and it's always kind of an innocent and refreshing. So it's always virginal to me, and it's always a surprise. ... Each piece seems to have a life of its own. Every little piece or every big piece that I make becomes a very living thing to me, very living. I could make a million pieces; the next piece gives me a whole new thing. It is a new center. Life is total at that particular time. And that's why it's right. That reaffirms my life.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

Painting, like passion, is a living voice.

The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art.

The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.

Music is a living art. You re-create it.

I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living.

My whole life is a theater piece.

That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Music is a living art.

You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.

With music, when you finish a record, you are entwined with it throughout your existence in a way which is both interesting and challenging because it's a living form, you have to come back to it.

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?