Life and Art Quotes

Rather than say art is art and life is life, I like to say that they're joined and inextricable.

Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.

There's really no differentiation between the work I make and the world I live in.

I think it was [Jean-Luc] Godard who said that life is nothing but a bad copy of film, but then our ambition must be to make better films and better shapes of forms that are given in life.

All that I've done in my life thus far, all the poems and all the pictures, are not so much an intermingling of my life with art but a divine accident.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

It's hard to draw clear lines between writing and life and I don't think it is necessary to or necessarily good to.

All these troubles revolve around the irritable mutual dependence of life and art - with their need and contempt for one another. Of necessity, to create is a temporary state and cannot be possessed.