Quotes About Art

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

Music and songs are written at different periods of time, at different times in your life. They reflect the feelings you have and to be honest, I quite like having positive emotions.

The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.

Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.

The biggest lesson in photography is that from negative we make a positive

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

I think hiphop is a beautiful thing and I embody it and I'm going to live it and I'm going to represent it until the day I leave this earth, because I represent everything positive about hiphop.

To give emphasis only to beauty makes me think of a mathematics that deals with positive numbers only.

I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

There are rap groups that have a positive outlook in their art. These groups should be shown as an alternative to gangsta rap.

The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever live in people's hearts.

A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

Listening to music makes me creative in all spheres of life.

Insomnia is the act of pushing through sleep to achieve the art of insane creativity.

Don't resent the artist for painting the wrong picture of you after you provided the colors of your character.