Art Mirrors Life Quotes

#1. If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Bertolt Brecht

#2. If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.

Jim Rohn

#3. When the things get hard, there is a success near about.

Lovely Goyal

#4. Seriously, I grew up a fan of Hulk Hogan, and I think I bring some of his best values to the ring ... the values of a superhero. Always do your best. Never give up ... I think kids want to believe in that, and they should believe in that.

John Cena

#5. No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

Brad Warner

#6. This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Terry Pratchett

#7. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

#8. BBC Radio is not so much an art or industry as it is a way of life ... a mirror that reflects ... the eccentricities, the looniness that make Britons slightly different from other humans.

Morley Safer

#9. So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

David Icke

#10. He was not what he made up his mind to be. A man was the sum of his limits: freedom only made him see how much so. America was no America.

Gish Jen

#11. It is in the nature of original contemporary art to present itself as a bad risk. And we the public ... should be proud of being in this predicament, because nothing else would seem to us quite true to life; and art, after all, is supposed to be a mirror of life.

Leo Steinberg

#12. The sad thing is that somehow, it is a type of event that mirrors the artist. You take it into account, and you're reminded in this specific case what the artist's work is about, what his life is like, and how life mirrors art.

Massimiliano Gioni

#13. Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#14. Cupid in these latter times has probably laid aside his bow and arrow, and uses fire-arms
a pistol
perhaps a revolver.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#15. If you only read what you agree with, you'll never learn anything. - James D. Hodgson

Pat Williams

#16. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

Oscar Wilde

#17. She had always found platypuses irresistible proof that God likes a joke as much as anyone else.

Kerry Greenwood