Ludivine Sagnier Quotes

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

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

I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.

I think great art comes from being open and creative with somebody, and of course, if feelings start getting involved in that, it can either make things fantastic or really messy.

I think when you're being creative, you still attach it to reality somehow.

That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

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

Many books that you read, they have those disclaimers that say that, "None of the events and none of the people are based on real life" and so on... Well, I don't believe that. I think that as human beings many people touch us, especially people we love the most and we can't help but do character sketches when we go to our art.

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

What use is my mind? Granted that it enables me to hail a bus and to pay my fare. But once I am inside my studio, what use is my mind? I have my model, my pencil, my paints. My mind doesn't interest me.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality.

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 happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Art gives to you a new conception of reality, opens your mind, opens your heart, opens your desire of action.

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.