Helen McCrory Quotes

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

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.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.

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

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

I'm an artist in my heart.

The greatest creators are as hungry to consume as they are to create.

Art is a sense of magic.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.

I want to create. I think that's the one word I can grow on.

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

Music inspires me.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

Music is for dreamers, I think.