Hayley Kiyoko Quotes

Music, art, writing - it gives us a sense of who we are, a sense of our history, a sense of our future and it should provide some kind of comfort. It's not just entertainment for entertainment's sake, it's an investment.

People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

It never ceases to amaze me how art can touch and inspire people.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

To me, art's highest purpose is to entertain, to enlighten, to inspire, to evoke emotion and to change an audience in some way, big or small.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think.

Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence and you change your life. And you want to change the life of others, too. That's why people are involved with art.

Art was always for me an escape and a way to relate to the world around me.

That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.

Art has absolutely changed my life.

If buying art is to matter to us deeply, then it has to engage with our emotions and bring something to what one might as well, and with no supernatural associations whatsoever, call our souls.

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

All great art allows us this: a glimpse across the limits of our self.

The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.

What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

It's amazing what art can do.