Michael Jackson Quotes

Therefore art means: you have to believe, to have faith, that is, cultivate vision.

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul.

I'm not the type to turn to drugs and alcohol, but I do have a profound devotion to art and music - and children.

Immaterial art is the strongest because there's no obstacle; there's just energy, and I believe in energy.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

I do believe - and I know I shouldn't - that art transcends money and success and any of that. You can still do it if you're not clinging to the notion of nobility.

Art is a tyrant. It demands heart, brain, soul, body. The entireness of the votary. Nothing less will win its highest favor. I wed art. It is my husband, my world, my life dream, the air I breathe. I know nothing else, feel nothing else, think nothing else.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

Art is a jealous mistress.

Personally, I never believe an artist saying "I do it for myself" is saying the truth, because why would you go through the trouble of making something that goes out into the world if you didn't care about somebody else seeing it? It's like the difference between those who choose "more comfortably termed entertainment" versus what people think of as the "art life," which is supposedly more monastic or spiritual. I don't believe in those distinctions.

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... .

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.