Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

The power of art can break the shackles that bind and divide human beings.

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Why I talk so seriously about art is that art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can't get rid of. They've tried, but ultimately they can't stamp it out.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

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.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make.

I think that limitations are the most important part of any art form

I wanted to show painting paintings first, then the plate paintings; now I can show that I've sort of freed myself from stylistic inhibitions.

Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves. And to be stolen away from ourselves by Art is a momentary relaxation from that itching, a minute's profound, and as it were secret, enfranchisement.

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

Follow your heart, and your pleasure in art. Don’t do what you think is going to be making you money, or what you’re parents want you to do, or what that beautiful girl or guy thinks you should be doing. Do what you love. It’s going to lead to where you want to go. Go out there and make the world more beautiful. I know you can.

It is, of course, a luxury to create art and, on top of this, to insist on expressing one's own artistic opinion. Nothing is more luxurious than this. It is a game and a good game, at least for me; one of the few games which make life, difficult and depressing as it is sometimes, a little more interesting.

Art is the set of wings to carry you out of your own entanglement.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth

Art simply can’t be stopped.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'

I just make what I'm making, and then one day I won't want to make it anymore. I think that's a luxury we should be able to have as people, especially as artists.