Sanjay Leela Bhansali Quotes

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.

It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

Painting completed my life.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.

I've always had a creative urge and I get immense satisfaction from creating something because it feels like I'm making sense of the world and imposing order on it.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, 'Were you able to express yourself?'

We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.

I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.