Quotes About Art

The only thing emanating from my pictures should be emotion.

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will

Writing is a craft not an art.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Photography is truth.

I would like to go and dance in Palestine one day, with great pleasure, great pleasure.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

I don't believe in inspiration that arrives like a bolt from the blue ... It seems to me that the more motivated I am by what I film, the more objectively I film.

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.