Quotes About Art

Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see.

You have to systematically create confusion, it sets creativity free. Everything that is contradictory creates life

There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red.

I treat the camera like a person—I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.

My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don't feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps

The artist's role is to raise the consciousness of the people. To make them understand life, the world and themselves more completely. That's how I see it. Otherwise, I don't know why you do it.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

No artist tolerates reality.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

Your life is already artful-waiting, just waiting, for you to make it art.