Eva Hesse Quotes

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

I play music, I paint - these things come from your depths.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Art is my life and my life is art.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

I think, as singers and performers, we are ambassadors of the human experience. I don't want to get bored just talking about myself.

I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

The real essence of art turned out to be not something high up and far off - it was right inside my ordinary daily self - If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human.

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

You are the artist and the art.

I think good creative writing opens up space for people to come into. Let God reach out and touch the human soul. That's not my job. I get to be present and create as much space as I can ... That frees me up just to be creative in the way I want to be.

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.

What makes a tight circle or a tight little square box more of an intellectual statement than something done emotionally, I don't know. Art is an essence, a center.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.