Quotes About Art

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that's not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

It would be possible, in theory, for life and art to be reversed.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

The dance is the highest symbol of life itself.

I exist in the world and live in my art.

Watercolor is an alchemical medium - colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it - creating new life where none had been before.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

Art does the same things dreams do. We have a hunger for dreams and art fulfills that hunger. So much of real life is a disappointment. That's why we have art.

Creativity makes life useful to us. It also makes us useful to life.

I move on stage differently. The more you act, anyway, the more you live, your perception of life becomes more and more accurate.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

Music has always played a big part in my life and, believe it or not, in my soap opera career.

Real success is making art your whole life.

I have been painting white people for much longer in my life than I have done for colored people.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

One of the first lessons a necromancer learns is the art of playing dumb. Of course, one problem with playing dumb is that is seeps into your everyday life. ~Jaime Vegas

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

Subject becoming less relevant, each painting having a life of its own, each stroke leading to the next. It is more about the connection of body and spirit to canvas, over mind to canvas.

Conventional nudes based on classical originals could bear no burden of thought or inner life without losing their formal completeness.

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

Being a digital artist enables me to take my signature pieces and place them in a dimensional reality that only really exists within my head. Then I can bring it to life.