Robert Adams Quotes

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

An artist's love for what they create is what creates love.

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

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

Great art can only be created out of love.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

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

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

Music inspires me.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

I can't write songs unless I am in love.

I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.

I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.

Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I have so much love for art.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I get inspired by the sounds that evoke an emotion from me. That's what I am drawn to; that's what turns me on.

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.