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Quotes About Belief

Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
The art of persuasion. The actor persuades himself, first, and through himself, the audience.
~ Laurence Olivier
I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
~ Camillo di Cavour
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
~ Marc Chagall
It is either easy or impossible.
~ Salvador Dali
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
~ Steven Pinker
Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for a while.
~ Corita Kent
Heart and mind overcome all.
~ Dan Henderson
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
~ Elizabeth Peyton
Everything is permitted, everything is allowed, and all our Gods we have outwitted, we are running with the crowd.
~ Meat Loaf
Creativity is the art of the impossible
~ Ben Okri
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
~ bell hooks
Ive come to believe in the primacy of form - the notion of art seducing you through your senses, through your eyeballs.
~ Fred Tomaselli
Art raises its head where creeds relax.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
~ Unknown
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
~ Albert Einstein
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Judson Church was a very important place because they believed in art. They also took care of drug addicts. Without the Judson, nothing could have happened.
~ Claes Oldenburg
Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
~ Lawrence Durrell
Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.
~ Deepak Chopra
I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.
~ Lynn Collins
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
~ Ernst Haas
I'm completely self-taught. I absolutely don't believe in art or film schools!
~ Tom Six
I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.
~ Eric Drooker