Quotes About Art

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.

To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic.

Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.

For a long time I heard rap without paying attention, but it is still a way of life, even when you're a kid.

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.

Art is the child of imagination and gives life.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

My boxes are life's experiences aesthetically expressed.

Life is the leaves which shape and nourish a plant, but art is the flower which embodies its meaning

I know that if there's a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Instead of me keeping my art a personal thing, we can use it to save lives, change lives and inspire.

To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art.

Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.

I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired