P. J. Harvey Quotes

When I photograph, what I'm really doing is seeking answers to things.

I think the deeper you go into questions, the deeper or more interesting the questions get. And I think that's the job of art.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

Not everyone has a Life's Work. Some people simply have a Life.

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

My life is existing. Cinema is certainly not my life

Creating means living.

What kind of art do I want to make? What do I stand for? What inspires me? And then to have people in return respond to that... I think that's the greatest thing because throughout dancing, I'm always looking for that.

What is the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

Hopefully, great science fiction films help you think about issues that relate to yourself, whether it's: What's my purpose? Why am I here? What is it that makes me who I am? Those are the kind of questions my favorite science fiction films ask.

You were programmed to deliver a message, and the creation of that message is your greatest art. What is the message? Your life.

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to give to the public, to the actors, to the artist - to give something that makes life the paradise it can be. Life can be a paradise. Still, I believe that. Even if there is Trump, there can be a paradise.

Live the questions now.

Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

I'm interested in people who have lived, who are searching and questioning.

My trade and art is to live.

Life: my favorite occupation.

I want to know why I'm alive. I want to understand. It's like exploration; it's like someone being interested in a place and its history, digging into the earth and looking for it, searching - it's a passion.