Quotes About Art

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

Music's been part of my entire life. It's in my DNA.

The arts saved my life.

Film is something that came later into my life.

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

My art and profession is to live.

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

In general I'm more attached to a cinema that tries not to replicate the real world and life.

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.

I think when people talk about art imitating life, you're in real time.

Sometimes when I'm in the studio I feel so much but don't know how to express it. You're just like in a cave - life goes on without you.

Knowing the steps to create living growth: that is art.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

You know creators, composers, need a palette for life, a color for life.

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

I want the recording process to be a time in my life that I will remember.

Works of Art are meant to connect the human heart to inspiration, for cosmic consciousness to grow in the Supreme Reality rooted in Life and Being.

The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.

Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.