Quotes About Art

The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

Magick is the Art of Life itself.

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

I want to say my life inspires my lyrics, but I also try to abstract them as much as possible because I don't want to refer to my life explicitly. I'm definitely really embarrassed by my lyrics.

Art and psychoanalysis give shape and meaning to life and that is why we adore them, but life as it is lived has no shape and meaning.

If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often. It's a mysterious condition. It's much like the life of a Catholic nun. You're married to a mystery.

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

...sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.