Eleonora Duse Quotes

The soul of the artist cannot remain hidden.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

Every good painter paints what he is.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

I feel like the 'Supernova' record, those songs are very me. It's a more honest representation of me than any record I have made prior to that.

Your music essentially reflects everything you do, everything you've been through, in the deepest part of you.

Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths.

Improvisation is not the expression of accident but rather of the accumulated yearnings, dreams and wisdom of our very soul.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

In my opinion, there is a huge lack of imaginative, unconventional music being created by artists today and what little there is, goes widely unappreciated by the masses. 'Port Blue' is my attempt at re-creating the music I want to hear and the emotions I want to feel." "If by chance you ever feel as though you’ve come to know these songs, please consider yourself a friend because in a manner of speaking, you know me. This music is my heart and soul. This is who I am." (Adam R. Young, 2006)

A work of art is a confession.

All art is autobiographical.

For all men live by truth, and stand in need of expression. In love, in art, in avarice, in politics, in labor, in games, we study to utter our painful secret. The man is only half himself, the other half is his expression.

Art is eternal for it reveals the inner landscape which is the soul of man.

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.

The role of the artist I now understood as that of revealing through the world-surfaces the implicit forms of the soul, and the great agent to assist the artist was the myth.

You are the artist and the art.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

I don't paint nature. I am nature.

It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self.