One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is the triumph over chaos.
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Sometimes art imitates life.
I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'
What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.
I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.
Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.