Quotes About Art

All great art is an imperfect, halting attempt to catch up upon life.

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.

For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.

I don't like the discussions about whether photography is an art. Even though I think that if it would be just a craft I would not have stayed with it all my life.

Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.

I can't imagine life without singing.

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

Life is short, but art lives forever.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. The instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived ... the human body.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

I'd never make a film that I am not passionate about. My whole life, I've only made the films I wanted to make, even when I had limited means.

Literature has become my life.

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

Art has no need of philosophical arguments, it does not follow the signposts of philosophical systems; Art like life, dictates systems to philosophy.

I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place I am in my life, a really good place.

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.