Sebastiao Salgado Quotes

I believe in art.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

I want to bring art into everything.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

Art is a continuum.

I paint. I love the visual arts.

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Generally, I move in the direction of art.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I'm an artist, not a philosopher.

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

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I think of a piece, and then people who are competent fabricate it. But lately I've started finger painting, which probably should be a joke but isn't!

I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

The best thing about being an artist is the free clothing and getting to kiss pretty girls.

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'

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