Quotes About Art

My whole life long I have done nothing but interpret my dreams of ultimate masculinity, and draw them.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes.

Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life.

My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ... my art gives meaning to my life.

Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I think about life.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Colour is a human need like water and fire. It is a raw material indispensable to life

I think that any sculpture is a response to its environment. It can be brought to life or put to sleep by the environment.

All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Art is the image of life, it's purpose simply to enhance it.