Chris Cornell Quotes

Through art, you create your own world.

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas.

Making art is different for everyone.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I crave to be able to photograph the way a painter paints - in a loose, expressive way.

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.

My art, like my acting, is a profound expression of poetic license.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

If a work of art is to explore new environments, it is not to be regarded as a blueprint but rather as a form of action-painting.

An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the star. The creator is the director, the person who realizes the picture, like a poet, like an artist. The creator of the picture is free to do whatever he wants, how he wants to do it. That is an artistic picture.

Then you learn about composition, you learn about old masters, you form certain ideas about structure. But the inhuman activity of trying to make some kind of jump or leap, where , the painting is always saying, 'What do you want from me? I can only be a painting.' You have to go from part to part, but you shouldn't see yourself go from part to part, that's the whole point.

I'm a painter, that's where I started out, at four years old, that was my first love as far as expression. So, I'm not a painter in the sense of, "Please come see my paintings" but, I do understand the value of not looking over the artist's shoulder while the work is in progress.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.

When I see things that are inspiring, I must write a song about it. Some people make a t-shirt or slap something on a wall with paint, but I must make music and freestyle rap.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.