Quotes About Art

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.

That's one of my real goals is to keep theater in my life.

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

I think hope is key, in life and in art.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had

When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

How frightening it is to have reached the height of human accomplishment in art that must forever borrow from life's abundance.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films.

poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing.

For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.

When you make a movie, it's a movie, and things change based on who you put in the movie. And so it's, you know, obviously not exactly your life, but I feel that I did learn a lot about my parents.

My life's far too complicated to be summed up in one song. It would take 20 just to represent one single day.

We find life in art and we find art in life!

No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

Songs are snapshots of things - it's likened to looking at pictures. It will never feel like it felt in real life. When you look at it, it always feels different. It's sort of the same with songs.

Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone.