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With age, art and life become one. -- Georges Braque
In my inner soul art and life are inseparable. -- Eva Hesse
For me there is no difference between art and life. -- Robert Rauschenberg
There is a difference between art and life and that difference is readability. -- Marian Engel
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. -- Jean-Luc Godard
This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life. -- Marcel Duchamp
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. -- Robert Rauschenberg
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. -- Margot Fonteyn
... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred. -- Louise Bogan
I think art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable -- Eva Hesse
Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen. -- Charles Simic
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination. -- David Salle
You can tell within a sentence if something is fiction or non-fiction. You can tell in the artifice of the language or the care of the construction the difference between art and life. -- Ethan Canin
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word... -- Eva Hesse
In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals. -- Ben Lerner
Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life]. -- David Lynch
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. -- Margot Fonteyn
We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. -- David Elliott
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable -- Charles Bukowski
The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life. -- Harold Rosenberg
Art and life ought to be hurriedly remarried and brought to live together. -- Hugh Walpole
The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. -- Allan Kaprow
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it. -- Whoopi Goldberg
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk. -- Andy Greenwald
I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing. -- Lia Ices
Holiness of heart and life. This is not the perfection of the human nature, but the holiness of the divine nature dwelling within. -- A. B. Simpson
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. -- Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Holiness is God's special gift to His people who believe in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the Cross. Holiness is the everyday work of the Holy Spirit in the heart and life of believers. -- Pazaria Smith
True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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. -- Jean-Luc Godard
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on its being. From that insistence, a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that's very hard to do. -- Roger Rosenblatt
Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment. -- Genesis P-Orridge
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. -- Jane Jacobs
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. -- Gunter Grass
Art is my life and my life is art. -- Yoko Ono
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. -- Oscar Wilde
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'. -- Barnett Newman
Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements. -- Bruce Willis
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief. -- Lionel Trilling
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. -- Josh Peck
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler
I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better! -- Donald Fagen
If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust. -- Alan Rickman
My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it. -- Clive Barker
Florence and art is something that is part of my life and is part of myself. -- Roberto Cavalli
It's weird, like, my life has always imitated art, and my art has always imitated life. -- Sebastian Bach
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. -- Charles Ives
I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced. -- Jewel
I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff. -- Art Alexakis
The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore. -- Art Donovan
You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go. -- Art Alexakis
Sometimes art imitates life. -- Michael Douglas
Your life is your art. -- Keri Smith
Art is longer than life. -- Lee Strasberg
Wherever art appears, life disappears. -- Robert Motherwell
Now life is imitating art. -- Rakim
Art is life, plus caprice. -- William Ernest Hocking
Art is life's dream interpretation. -- Otto Rank
Life too near paralyses art. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life doesn't last, art doesn't last -- Eva Hesse
Art has absolutely changed my life. -- Peter Weller
Life imitates art -- but badly. -- Edward Abbey
Any work of art dignifies life. -- James Ponsoldt
Life is greater than all art. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Life is earnest, art is gay. -- Friedrich Schiller
The big art is our life. -- Mary Caroline Richards
Life is short, the art long. -- Hippocrates
Life is short and art is long. -- Seneca the Younger
When life sucks, throw yourself into art. -- Monica Drake
The art is long, life is short. -- Hippocrates
Art exists because life is not enough. -- Ferreira Gullar
Life imitates art but art intimidates life. -- Dana Gould
Life doesn't imitate art...it is art! -- John Lennon
Life is short, but art lives forever. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Art's too long and life's too short. -- Grace Paley
Layer by layer art strips life bare. -- Robert Musil
Life is art's rival and vice versa. -- Wyndham Lewis
The secret of life is in art -- Oscar Wilde
I think your life informs your art. -- Sheryl Crow
Art without life is a poor affair. -- Henry James
Art like life is an open secret. -- Lawrence Durrell
Art is the proper task of life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The art is long, life is short -- Hippocrates
Life is short and the art long. -- Hippocrates
Art is the great stimulus to life. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is serious but art is fun! -- John Irving
Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. -- Brad Holland
Magick is the Art of Life itself. -- Aleister Crowley
Art is eternal, but life is short. -- Evelyn de Morgan
The secret of life is in art. -- Oscar Wilde
Art is socialism but life is capitalism. -- Mike Birbiglia
Art is doing. Art deals directly with life. -- Ruth Asawa
Real success is making art your whole life. -- Kay WalkingStick
Art comes from life, not from the studio -- Marina Abramovic
Because art is life, playing to other rhythms. -- Muriel Barbery
I get so confused about life photography art. -- William Wegman
In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life. -- William Shakespeare
Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. -- Ani DiFranco
Art always springs from a surplus of life" -- Marty Rubin
Life and art are not two different things.... -- Felix Mendelssohn
Art is the flower... life the green leaf. -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Life isn't long enough for love and art. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Life is the art of being well deceived. -- William Hazlitt
[Art is] an attempt to escape from life. -- H. L. Mencken
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television. -- Woody Allen
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. -- Michael Korda
In life beauty perishes, but not in art. -- Leonardo da Vinci
The life I live is my art work. -- Alec Monopoly
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life. -- Michael Korda
Immortality, thou art a chimerical bridesmaid of life. -- Aporva Kala
Art indeed is long, but life is short. -- Andrew Marvell
What is art but the denial of life? -- Fernando Pessoa
Art is not some fun add-on to life, -- Grayson Perry
What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive. -- Tahar Rahim
Art is the child of imagination and gives life. -- Mirka Mora
Purity of life is the highest and truest art. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art. -- Leonardo da Vinci
Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little. -- Philip James Bailey
Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises. -- Gunter Grass
Does art imitate life, or does life imitate TV? -- Woody Allen

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