Quotes About Art

Through sharing my pain, I can possibly heal your pain. There is no other feeling like it. Money doesn't compare. This is the true meaning of art.

Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.

When I say 'art healed me,' it really healed me!

Music became a healer for me.

Music is such a healing thing, no matter who you are.

For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art. Cinema not only heals me, but it can change the world.

The body is a sacred garment.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that.

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible.

I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing.

When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written, and you're hearing it out loud for the first time, that is always, every single time, no matter what, a magical process.

Art is a gift and if nobody hears it, that doesn't make it any less of a gift.

My heart and soul is still music.

Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.

Theater feeds my heart and soul.

Music is my heart and soul. That's what I love to do.

Music will always be the heart and soul of a film, whether the film is star-driven or content-driven.

Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.

Even sometimes when I don't have a heartbreak I purposely get my heart broken so that I can make that song!

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.