Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

Through art, you create your own world.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

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.

To create a work of art is to create the world.

The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.

As a political artist, I think you have to learn how to create art, no matter what your ideology is.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

I wanted to do my artistic work, and in Iran you have censorship. It was difficult for me to do the work I wanted to do.

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.

For me, making a movie is kind of like vomiting. Not that film is like vomit, but more like this mass of ideas and thoughts that you have and just have to put them out there. It's not even about making perfect sense - it's more about making perfect nonsense. I don't do too much soul-searching or self-analysis. I just enjoy making things.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Expression and the right to express is vital, anyone can be artistic.

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.