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James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.
I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.
There's a lot of ambiguity in life, and so often, our art is very neatly wrapped up at the end, when our lives never feel that way.
I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything.
If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.