Eva Hesse Quotes

I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too.

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.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.

I don't think music teaches about mundane, everyday life. It teaches us what it is to be a human being.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Creativity is a religion. When you get into it, you will find your life becomes more spiritual.

Art is a self-replicating force.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.

Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.

Art is not escape, but a way of finding order in chaos, a way of confronting life.

The secret of life is in art.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15. After my kids were born I found myself incorporating my photography into different art endeavors and from there it just blossomed.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

Modeling isn't boring.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Art is about the messy and marvelous business of coming to your senses - and also, to the senses of the world.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

Art helped give me confidence.

I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express.