Quotes About Art

You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane and free from anxiety than by being mad.

I make every movie and every scene like it could be my last. That's the only way I know how to make cinema that stands on its feet. I have to treat it like that. It has to be life and death stakes.

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself.

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.

Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

I have been drawing all my life.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, "That's a pretty little thing," after I had finished a picture.

I have drawn all my life, I don't know how to live without drawing.

Life imitates art -- but badly.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

All talk of method and style seemed suddenly trivial; I became interested in meaning. I wanted to say something musically about life and living.

The painter's appreciation for beauty is more conscious, for he spends his life trying to communicate his feelings to others.

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

In acting, you draw so much on your private life.