Val Kilmer Quotes

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

Art is a way of survival.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Nature engenders the science of painting.

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

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

Painting is but another word for feeling.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I've always liked to draw.

When I draw, I always recall my mindset when I was a child.

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

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

I think a lot of actors, comedians, musicians, artists are drawn to this world, because you're allowed to excavate whatever it is that you're struggling with, and hopefully turn it into art.

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