Vittorio De Sica Quotes

Art for art's sake, and creation for creation's sake, and love for love's sake

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I'm not an artist who has an agenda that's set by the work.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

The rule I stand by as an artist is definitely be yourself, and don't make music just for other people: make it for you first.

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orderly product which our middling race has produced. It is the cry of a thousand sentinels, the echo from a thousand labyrinths, it is the lighthouse which cannot be hidden. It is the best evidence we can have of our dignity.

One clear difference between art and commercial work is that commercial work is exploitive: the work may be high quality but the intention is to sell product or tickets. Art exists with or without ticket sales.

Art can be very political but that can't be the purpose of art, it can't be the driving force. It isn't with any of the books that I love, anyway.

Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

One doesn't make art for other people, even though I am very concerned with the viewer.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

I think there is a debate in the arts about, you know, whether we must strive for art for art's sake, and you know, kind of try to keep political debate out of our work. And to that I say, I'd like you to show me an example of, you know, this so-called apolitical art. I don't think there's any such thing.

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

At the end of the day, I'm an artist. I may make work and decide to do something political, but it will come out of an artist's position. It won't come out of society telling me I have to. If I do, it's because I choose, as an artist, to do it.

I don't write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much.

I don't do any art to please any people.

I consider myself first of all an artist. My work is about my creativity - why I create and not for whom.