Quotes About Art

I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture

You don't write because you want to say something. You write because you have something to say.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

I believe that art has been a vehicle for me that's been about enlightenment and expanding my own parameters, to give me courage to exercise the freedom that I have in life.

Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Everyone thinks they can write a play you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

Singers provide all the proof that we have souls.

Writing is pure sweet freedom.

Be passionate bleed colors & words which waters both soul and body

...maybe that's art. Seeing beauty others miss and capturing it.

A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life's pure beauty.

I don't paint what people expect, I paint what my heart yearns to express.