Sheila Heti Quotes

This creating? It's my passion.

I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.

Great art can only be created out of love.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

I have sworn to die painting.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love.

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

I have so much love for art.

I am not really into paintings, to be honest, but for me, the art I love is when I see singers putting their heart into their song, actors giving the performance of their lives, and books and movies that make me feel something I never thought I could; there's art in everything as long as it's made with soul.

I would say that artists have to be good lovers.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.

My favorite song that I wrote is 'Love Line.' This was my first song that I wrote lyrics for, and I really wanted to express the feeling when you're in love and hoping the other person feels the same way.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.