Don't just make art; make art your life.
Jim Genovese
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Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
DON MIGUEL RUIZ Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
MIGUEL RUIZ You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art...
SETH GODIN Take your broken heart, make it into art.
CARRIE FISHER I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of t...
NEIL GAIMAN Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
CLAUDE DEBUSSY If someone says something about your art that makes you feel bad, disregard it and joyfully make mor...
GAYLE WRAY Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.
WILLIAM QUIGLEY Make good art.
NEIL GAIMAN Make your life like a work of art,visualize your talent,express your lifestyle and succeed whats wor...
MARK GRINER It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
JOHN IRVING Art classes teach how to make art, but the essence, of art is still the essence of you.
JIM GENOVESE Who says 'Life never gives a second chance'. It's just that we dont make an effort.
REKHA MENON Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is ...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y...
DAVID CRONENBERG Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
KENNETH TYNAN It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
KATE MICUCCI I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.
DRIES VAN NOTEN Humans make art to remember and be remembered,” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgett...
MELISSA GREY I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you...
STEVE MARTIN The power to miraculously make things happen in your life,is by learning the art of throwing in the ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, a...
STEPHEN FRY The way I make art - the way a lot of people make art - is as an extension of language and communica...
SHEPARD FAIREY It is difficult to make political art work.
THOM YORKE Thou art sure of me:--go, make money
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You don’t make art out of good intentions.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Art is life, life is art.
JIM GENOVESE Your life is your art and your heart is your paintbrush.
SAMANTHA FARRUGIA When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just alo...
PATRICK STUMP You'll need to suffer to make any real art.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I make art for the sake of art . . . and for my own selfish gratification, because I’m an artis...
LINDSEY STIRLING I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of y...
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their...
CHARLES SAATCHI If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."
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SHANE L. KOYCZAN The people who make art their business are mostly impostors.
PABLO PICASSO Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
OSCAR WILDE I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art ...
HANNAH GADSBY The art of life is to show your hand.
E. V. LUCAS The art of giving your best leaves you nothing to look back to, but merely lessons to make better fo...
FLORDELYN AGAMATA I used to always make art for girls. That was the thing I did for girls to like me. I did portraits,...
CARY FUKUNAGA Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Without art the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
WILLEM DE KOONING Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whethe...
ANDY WARHOL The real art is bringing (each dummy) to life. The whole purpose is to make the people connect with ...
LORI WHITE To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
KURT VONNEGUT Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
EDGAR DEGAS In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an ar...
CARINE ROITFELD I'm creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you're not alone, like...
JAMILA WOODS Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
D.R.A.M. I want to learn how to do balloon art and make dolphins.
MARTIN GARRIX Why should I buy expensive art when I can make my own.
PIERO MILANI You can't make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is ...
ANN MARIE FROHOFF Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn y...
SOURCE UNKNOWN You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an a...
VIGGO MORTENSEN An innovator is an art scientist who just improves life.
BRYAN INDIGO The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Pra...
KURT VONNEGUT I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
CARRIE FISHER I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
CARRIE FISHER I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
ERNST FISCHER People talk about making art films - experimental films. I can make an art film every day of the wee...
CARLO PONTI Art is the ultimate luxury good, but one that can make you think, give a you a blast of beauty and e...
BEN ELLIOT Each artist experiences art differently. Some like to make the paint while others like to use it. Ar...
JIM GENOVESE The art of our necessities is strange, That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.
CHIP KIDD Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
DAVID HUME The role of art is to make a world which can be tolerated.
WILLIAM SAROYAN In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ...
SUSAN SONTAG Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
OSCAR WILDE Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.
AL JOURGENSEN Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, ...
CONOR OBERST Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice;...
RAINBOW ROWELL The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize...
KEITH HARING If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will...
MAXWELL ANDERSON Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
HOWARD AIKEN Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Acts 26:24
BIBLE Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
SCOTT ADAMS To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.
E.M. FORSTER The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If your child really loves art, get them some good brushes. Get good material and make them feel tha...
DENISE FLEMING The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just ...
, THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can ...
DAMIEN HIRST I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
ERNST FISCHER What is art? Art talks about life; it's subversive.
TAHAR RAHIM You just can't control your art in the future.
DAMIAN LOEB As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like...
RENZO PIANO I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
FRANK STELLA Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That'...
PHIL OCHS Art imitates life and, sometimes, life imitates art. It's a weird combination of elements.
BRUCE WILLIS Life is art.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Humility is the art of appreciating the people in your life, who forgive you your flaws.
MELISSA SZYMANSKI I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experienc...
JOHN DENVER You are just as qualified as any expert to make a judgment and have a feeling or a response to any w...
BILL VIOLA Sweet Benjamin, since thou art young, and hast not yet the use of tongue, make it thy slave, while t...
JOHN HOSKINS My goal is to make fine art, and fine art comes from the soul. If you have virtuosity and facility, ...
RICHARD MACDONALD Put your instrument into the hands of your Art and never your Art into the hands of your instrument!
IRVIN KAUFFMAN What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. BOYLE Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
RICHIE NORTON You never know what she's going to do. She can make art out of anything.
JOYCE MASON To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
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