Quotes About Art

To say that I enjoyed writing... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.

I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later.

You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.

I know that the most joy in my life has come to me from my violin.

This new form of dialogue that is bringing us to the art to which I have dedicated my life, is rooted in the deepest and most beautiful part of being human.

Your life can become the background for the art you create.

I love movies - it's my whole life, and that's it.

Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people like to attribute to it. Life is far more interesting.

Paintings, like dreams, have a life of their own and I have always painted very much the way I dream.

When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.

A picture is a poem without words

As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.