Josef Albers Quotes

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Music gets us in touch with our emotions in a way that's more intimate than any other art form.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Art is always about overcoming obstacles between the inner condition and the skill for expression.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Art is science made clear.

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

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

A creation needs not only subjectivity, but also objectivity.

Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

I'm focused on creating art and whichever outlet it can get out in.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

I think it is important to reach people through arts and literature, because then you establish a connection that's not an instant crisis.

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

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.