Paul Cezanne Quotes

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

I think there'll always be a kid with a guitar with a song in his heart that's going to turn me on - that's as far as I can see. Whether lots of people agree with that, I'm not sure.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Music is for dreamers, I think.

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.

What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.

Art is what can't be proven mathematically, right, it's where science ends. It's the part that makes you feel good, but you don't know why.

Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

Artists make our lives livable and enjoyable.