Quotes About Art

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film.

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life?

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.

Art is the suitcase of history, carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, art is memory, art is vaccine.

I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way or create art that critiques it well.

A film has its own life and takes its own time.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

What kind of beast would turn its life into words?

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

I was three years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life.

The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.

... I had always written but I never took it seriously. It was a way of life, not a living.

We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life, and thereby render it more alive.

I don't care about anybody's opinion - I care that my movies move you in a way to think about things and consider your own life.