Lina Wertmuller Quotes

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

I can only live my life in this way. I don't think I would be living it a different way if I wasn't acting.

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

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing.

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

All the things I love is what my business is all about.

If I walk away from music, I walk away from myself.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Art is my life and my life is art.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.

I rarely drink, I don't smoke, so my vice is probably creating. I'm addicted to creating. And women.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I just really always try to do what's in my heart and I'm still passionate about the music; I still love what I am doing.

The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

So as long as I can do the music or create, I'll feel fine.

Art is truth.

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

'Rebel' is not a word I would describe for myself, but I feel like I was a total rebel being an actor. It made me feel like there was something in me, a passion, a love - and that I didn't just squelch it.

I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.

I don't know which was the first love - music or fashion.

In the deepest hour of the night I confess to myself three things; I would die if I was forbidden to write, forbidden to love, or forbidden to fashion....love each other, and celebrate the art and lifestyle of music.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.