Quotes About Art

I think remixes give songs more life.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.

It would be impossible for me to give you a list of the top 10 songs that shake my life. Far more music went in to it than just ten.

I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

I'm just working with ideas in my head and with drawings that the artists did. And suddenly to see these things come to life in movies - it's just wonderful.

Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.

Music is our myth of the inner life.

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

You don't even really get used to doing scenes where you have to kiss, or be particularly intimate, with another person who's not actually your lover in real life.

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

I am working here (in Amsterdam) on my last big triptych, which will be a tremendous story, and which gives me a more intense life and exhilaration. My God, life is worth living!

I hate rushing the creative process, but there could definitely be a lot worse lots in life.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

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

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover.