Laurence Olivier Quotes

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

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

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

Life and art are inseparable.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.

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

To make art you need to be inspired.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

What is art if not a concentrated and impassioned effort to make something with the little we have, the little we see?