Quotes About Art

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

From my point of view, which is that of a storyteller, I see your life as something artful, waiting, just waiting and ready for you to make it art.

The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life

My ultimate goal in life, with my music, is to make a movement.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

Style isn't something added on; it's intrinsic to the perceptions and the way you see life.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy.

Life without music is only error, exhaustion, exile... Indeed, there is nothing that concerns me more than the fate of music.

I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely essential to our community life.

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

The ability to draw from life determines the artist's skill. This is why live drawing classes have always been at the top of the curriculum for properly structured academic workshops.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you... Eliminate that word from your life... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.