Orhan Pamuk Quotes

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

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

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

Music has always been a part of me and art in general. I love visual art as well.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

All art, like all love, is rooted in heartache.

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

Great art can only be created out of love.

One of the things my career as an artist might say to young artists is: The things that are close to you are the things you can photograph the best. And unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.

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.

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

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

Love is a dangerous thing. It comes in disguise to change our life... Lust is the deceiver. Lust wrenches our lives until nothing matters except the one we think we love, and under that deceptive spell we kill for them, give all for them, and then, when we have what we have wanted, we discover that it is all an illusion and nothing is there. Lust is a voyage to nowhere, to an empty land, but some men just love such voyages and never care about the destination. Love is a voyage too, a voyage with no destination except death, but a voyage of bliss.

It happens just because we need to want and to be wanted too, when love is here or gone to lie down in the darkness and listen to the warm.

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