Kathe Kollwitz Quotes

How much the work of an artist owes to an art movement to which he belongs can never be determined exactly, if only because the movement derives its character from the individual creations of its members.

I like connecting with people, and that's what good art is: a point of connection. There's nothing better, on stage or on film.

Every work of art belongs to his time. I would not paint again the Mona Lisa in the third dimension.

Just because someone said painting is dead doesn't mean that it's a fact or the truth - painting is the soul food of art, in a way.

All art is contemporary art because it had to be made when it was now.

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work and it creates this strange connection. It's really a way of strangers communicating through this third thing, which is a body of work. But really, I know it's a cliché to say I write for myself, but I write for myself.

Painting and sculpture help other people to see what a wonderful world we live in.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

All art is contemporary, if it's alive, and if it's not alive, what's the point of it?

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

Nothing reveals more about the inner life of a people than their arts.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?

I've been really lucky to spend some time around actors and artists I really admire. One thing I gathered from asking a lot of questions is that part of this job and this life we've chosen is doing personal exploration in front of an audience. In a lot of ways, that's what art is: personal searching with people watching.

I really love art and I always have in every single different form and I just hope that I'm able to give some art that will touch some people and help them to be more positive and stronger.

What kind of art do I want to make? What do I stand for? What inspires me? And then to have people in return respond to that... I think that's the greatest thing because throughout dancing, I'm always looking for that.

I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story.

Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

Normal people do not create art.

Through art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men.

The artist is the lover of nature; therefore he is her slave and her master.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.

All the art of the past rises up before me, the art of all ages and all civilizations, everything becomes simultaneous, as if space had replaced time. Memories of works of art blend with affective memories, with my work, with my whole life.