Quotes About Art

I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater.

True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors.

Appreciation is an art and a lifestyle and a source of happiness and fulfillment. It's called gratitude-an attitude of gratitude.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

For, whom the Muses smile upon, And touch with soft persuasion, His words like a storm-wind can bring Terror and beauty on their wing; In his every syllable Lurketh nature veritable.

Art is good, but happiness is better.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

My writing, it's my way of making sense of everything. My way to feel whole. May I never be complete and may I never feel content – please, let me always have the need, always have the urge to write.

Paint your life and sketch your way

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health

Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.

The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.

His art is the health of the artist.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

I always argued against the auteur theory; films are a collaborative art form. I've had some fantastically good people help me make the movies.

Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.