Quotes About Art

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life.

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art.

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

I have a hard time even calling myself a musician, but I still have to be involved in music in some capacity in my life.

There have been so many instances in my life where movies, music, or literature has made my life tangibly better.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

Art is really predicated upon the experiences that you've had in your life. You only have to share what you've consumed.

Everything in my life really filters down to the music.

I draw in my sleep (dream of drawing) a lot. I don't think I have ever drawn anything in real life while I was sleeping, though. I do keep a pad near my bed, just in case.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Poetry, being elegance itself, cannot hope to achieve visibility... It insists on living its own life.

Making films is no longer a way of acting, it is a way of life.

Part of my agenda has been to support art that engages life with people.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

What I Suddenly Understand My job is to make people uncomfortable. + I will do it all my life. ---> My mother, Sasha Blake, is my first victim.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I think life is the most important thing and you have to live that first and then you're art comes second.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.

Music has always been a huge part of my life.

I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?