Quotes About Connection

My art is for anybody, it's for people who wouldn't go into an art gallery. It's art for the people.

By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.

There is no art without Eros.

On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

Whatever art is, it is no longer something primarily to be looked at. Stared at, perhaps, but not primarily looked at

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Art can heal it if art is allowed to exist. And if art is slowly wiped off the face of the planet, then what tools do we have to reach people, to appeal to them and all of their senses?

I don't believe in originality in art. I think we exist on this earth to inspire each other, through our actions, through our deeds, and through who we are. We're always borrowing.

Im always trying to find connections between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

It's not only music. It's not only art. It's a community. It's a sense of having a place to belong.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

But what is art other than revealing human nature?

Drunk with the joy of singing I forget myself and call thee friend who art my lord.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

For art to be art it has to cure.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.