Paul Cezanne Quotes

I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is the only such realm.

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)

Art is something to be proud of. Art is no compromise. As an actor, you're giving it up, you're at the mercy of so many other people.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.

I wanted to express myself more fully through writing and directing. It just feels like a package deal. Anytime you create anything, you try to exert mastery over your world.

Dancers are made, not born.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

There's not a lot of art forms where you can control your presentation and your ideas.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.

As a director and a creative person, I can say banning anything is wrong.

I think I'm just doing me, my music, my shows, and my stories.

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.

Lifes light. Life is light. You can make light do anything you want to. Photography means 'light writing'.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

As far as I am concerned, taking photographs is a means of understanding which cannot be separated from other means of visual expression. It is a way of shouting, of freeing oneself, not of proving or asserting one's own originality. It is a way of life.

Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.

Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

Art is manipulation without intervention.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

To me the pain and the blood are merely means of artistic expression.

To have a creative outlet that you can control is really important because you do a lot of waiting to be cast, then waiting to go into production, and then waiting on set.