Barbra Streisand Quotes

Art is the highest form of hope.

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.

In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

I think the point of art is to be controversial in a lot of ways. It's to cause conversations, and it's to get people excited about and talking about the things that the films are about.

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

Art is transformative. It's not 2+2=4. It works like the sea. It changes geography through its constant and relentless movement, just the way plants and water shape the world.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

I believe that art elevates humanity. I feel incredibly privileged to be part of that.