Barbra Streisand Quotes

I'm not a soldier for anything, either. I'm only a singer and I don't think it makes a difference what we sing.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.

I don't know that a political climate - as long as it's still a free country - makes much difference in the film world.

In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite classes and are geared to definite political lines. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes or art that is detached from or independent of politics.

The social dimension of the art world is fascinating to me, but I also want to entertain the reader, so I will let a character say something funny.

Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.

We do want to be diverted and be interested and be provoked by popular culture - by art, if we're lucky. And it's amazing how often people have lost sight of this.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

You're free to do anything you want with your company. It's more like art. You don't have to follow any norms. It's an expression of how you feel the world should be. When you make a company, that's your little place to make your own little utopia.

But ‘art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Tis the privilege of Art Thus to play its cheerful part, Man on earth to acclimate And bend the exile to his fate.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act of selfless spirit.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

There is no art without contemplation.

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

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

Didacticism is the death of art.