Quotes About Art

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.

Language is the writer's only tool - we really don't have anything else - but our language contains within it our entire experience of the world.

Experience is real. Painting, which comes out of experience, is real. The world is an illusion.

Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.

Because it's visual art, a lot of it comes from childhood experience but then a lot comes from the visual language - in advertising and stuff like that - which is around us.

I myself happen to find, on the basis of experience and nothing else, that photography can be a high art.

Art is all about the experience. I could say I dont really relate to opera, but then you watch Placido Domingo, and you go, Blimey, look at that.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

The paintings each take several months to do and it's quite a cathartic and intense experience that's very pleasurable, but also very strange.

As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.

We want Realism's wealth of experience and Symbolism's depth of feeling. All art is a problem of balance between two opposites.

Participants in dance, both dancers and viewers, may experience catharsis and develop a sense of mastery or self-discovery.

All poets who, when reading from their own works,m experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

I certainly believe that creativity must be an experience. If I'm to steal time away from people, we should give them something to react to.