Federico Fellini Quotes

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

A work of art is something produced by a person, but is not that person — it is of her, but is not her. It’s a reach, really — the artist is trying to inhabit, temporarily, a more compact, distilled, efficient, wittier, more true-seeing, precise version of herself — one that she can’t replicate in so-called ‘real’ life, no matter how hard she tries. That’s why she writes: to try and briefly be more than she truly is.

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

The goal of art was the vital expression of self.

I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when you get the best stuff anyway, when it's real emotion.

I write my songs because I've lived them.

All of my films have been autobiographical - it's all I've got to go on.

When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I've had.

I realized that even though I had this urge, this longing, to write about other people, in order for it to be emotionally gripping, I needed to be in there somehow.

I don't think I could write about something I've never experienced or felt; all my songs are about things I've been through.

When you're writing songs for yourself, as all artists do, it's about 'me.' It's about what you feel and your emotions. You're trying to get something out of your system about your experiences.

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

For me, I'm constantly writing stuff that is what I'm dealing with on a personal, psychological level. And I think that I bring that to whatever I'm doing, whether it's being an actor or a writer or whatever it is I'm doing. I think you can't help but do that.

Art is a way of showing the outside world what your inside world is like.

I paint the way some people write an autobiography. The paintings, finished or not, are the pages from my diary.

I love songs that are very autobiographical.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

I do think all art is autobiographical, and I do think I know quite a bit about women. I don't know anything about men.

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth.

I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.