Michel de Montaigne 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 get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

My ultimate search has been for a muse.

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

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

It is not the act of making art that is painful. It is the desire to make something and not acting on it that causes pain....A day when I don't write is less happy. This is not discipline. It is affection, enthusiasm, adventure-any number of other words besides discipline.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

My very first movie, 'Mary Poppins,' which I talk about, it just turned me into an obsessive, creative creature who had to sort of reply to the experience by drawing things, making things. It was like it forced - it made me into this obsessive, creative creature... I don't know any other way of putting it.

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

For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

I feel mushy these days when I think about art and artists and the work that lies ahead for us. There's good work to be done and there's joy to be found in it, I think.

The Muses inspire art and pretend not to notice when Mammon buys it.

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

I gave myself over to music and art a long time ago, so I don't get to relax and I don't get to sit still. The best I can do is constantly create my own environment so it benefits what I need to accomplish in the next step.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children.