Quotes on “art”

Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity.

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.

Bring something incomprehensible into the world!

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.