Giuseppe Verdi Quotes

There's only one reason for my whole life, and that's art. Nothing else counts; nothing else gives me pleasure; nothing else gives me satisfaction.

I do paint, and I wanted to actually be a painter. Sometimes I'll whip out paints. It's tough to find the motivation, but it's also a solitary, lonely occupation. What I like about acting is that it is such a collaborative thing.

This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently.

I cannot live without art: it excites me, it challenges me, and it leads me to the next thing.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

I've never said, 'I live for art.'

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

Art was, seriously, the only thing I'd ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.

Why an artist loves what they do is often so hard to describe.

I have so much love for art.

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

Art was - and is - my biggest outlet. I'd probably die if I didn't do it.

What is important is satiating my creativity as an artiste.

I was genuinely happy when I wrote that song [Training Wheels] and very in love. That's a very rare emotion to evoke out of me.

I just love musicians. They're not all super-happy all the time, but when they're playing they're happy, and it's such a beautiful thing.

I like to draw, and my drawings are what yell and scream for me.

I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

I can trace my interest in modern classics to the summer before art college.

From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.

I feel everything very strongly, and I find that when I sing through music, it helps me connect to people.

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

Writing songs has always been a process where I divulge a lot, just because music is a tool for me to sift through and process intense emotions. But having music be my primary occupation has changed how I interact with art.

To be able to inspire somebody just by doing something that you love, just by creating your art, is something that's very near and dear to my heart.

I don't write anything down - it comes from my head and my soul and my heart and my pain. That allows me to make the best music I can make.