Quotes About Art

When I went to art school in Romania, we learned the Golden Ratio Technique Theory, which taught us that when you draw a portrait and want to show an emotion, you change the eyebrows. They are the most important feature on the face.

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

I fell in love with filmmaking. I fell in love with criticism. I fell in love with theory, and it made me really dogmatic in my approach to choosing roles.

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the risk of being influenced if you see too much.

I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself.

Music is very therapeutic and healing, and I hit it from all angles.

Filmmaking is so much about catharsis anyway. It's therapeutic.

I think acting is therapeutic for me.

Whether its active rock, pop, country, hip-hop - I love music; it's therapeutic to me.

Being an entertainer, my path to inner peace is engulfed in the music that I create. While it is therapeutic for those who hear it, it is equally therapeutic for me to create.

Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.

Music is pretty therapeutic.

I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia dell'arte. It wasn't career-oriented in any way. It was more fun and therapeutic, so I never really thought of it as something I would end up doing. I was more convinced I was going to be a painter.

I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

Acting is therapeutic.

Acting is always therapeutic.

I think, in general, I find writing to be very therapeutic and singing in itself to be really therapeutic.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I think writing is very, very therapeutic.

Acting, for me, was therapeutic. It was a way of expressing yourself.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.