Lars von Trier Quotes

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is.

Painting is more important than art.

I've done an incredible amount of painters. It's an area, for me, where there's more mystery left. I've photographed so many musicians, I've been in studios so often, I know the whole process. The mystery's gone from it. I think it's important to keep mystery into our lives. There's a longing connected with it.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment.

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.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Art chooses its constraints.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

If you think about it enough to have a really articulate answer, you're not doing it right. That's how I feel about art. If your thought process could take you to knowing exactly what you're doing and why, there would be no point in making the art. It would become like propaganda. It's more nebulous than that.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

Everything an artist spits is art.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

There are so many things in the world - in the cities - so much to see. Does art need to represent this variety and contribute to its proliferation? Can art be that free? The difficulties begin when you understand what it is that the soul will not permit the hand to make.

Stop this agony of wishing Play it out Don't think, don't hesitate Curving back within yourself Just create... Just create

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.