Quotes about art

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Here is a lesson in creative writing.First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scar

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write?

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.

The human body is the best work of art.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?

All beautiful distractions, ignites from you.

I like living, breathing better than working...my art is that of living. Each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral, it's a sort of constant euphoria.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go.

Art is good, but happiness is better.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind

Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud,but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hoursjust wanting to make it through the day.There's

If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!

Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,Blowing on a miserable fire,Made from your heap of dying ash.Let apes and children praise your art,If their admiration’s to your taste,But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

Everything you can imagine is real.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Art is the proper task of life.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call artBullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a can of sardines can be an artNot many have styleNot many can keep styleI have seen dogs with more style than men,although not many dogs have style.Cats have it with abundance.When Hemingway put his brains to

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that t

Listen within to find shining poetry and hear extraordinary music. You are a work of art.

Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.

art is risk made visible

The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.

A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.

The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (g swiss)

Art is an imagination, crafted over innocent dreams and vibrant integrity.

It is perhaps, its ability to penetrate the multidimensional layers of the human condition at all, that makes poetry and art so valuable in today's modern age.

I let my love for all flow through art, and I express how I feel.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.

What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something Christian art? Must the artist’s subject be religious to be Christian? I don’t think so. There is a certain sense in which art is its own justification. If art is good art, if it is true art, if it is beautiful art, then it is bearing witness to the Author of the good, the true, and the beautiful

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

The truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.

...the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work he did. He did not seek redemption. He sought to see what others did not, the projection of his imagination.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persuasion. Even those beliefs he's surest of, the artist puts under pressure to see if they will stand.

The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively the oracles delivered by those two great deities.--- Charlotte Bronte

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.