Quotes About Art

One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

I extol life so much that I cannot make art.

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.

Sound comes out of a life experience.

I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.

I use music as some kind of weird salvation to get away from life

We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

I think, if you spend a day or - as many people do - a life working only with that aspect of your being, the cerebrum connected to a finger, I feel that the rest of you atrophies, essentially.

Your own creations are your own children; you gave life to them, so you'll always have, if not more passion to them, more connections to them.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

I don't want to spend my entire life drawing talking heads. It seems like a waste of everyone's time.