Henri Matisse Quotes

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

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

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

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

I just write songs from the heart, and you never know who'll like the songs. I try to make sure that I don't allow anybody's expectation to weigh on me. I have my own expectation of life. I believe in letting people be free.

Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.

Freedom resides within the soul.

It is not the mind, but the heart that makes free.

I truly believe that to actually be free and to be in place you can create from, you have to be able to be private.

If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

With regards to the paint, I'm normally quite introverted and shy. I keep myself to myself, and I find that when I hide behind the paint, so to speak, I'm able to let myself go more and move more freely than I can without it.

All of my experiences modeling, acting, doing theater, it's all in the work now. And the work freed me to transform myself.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

I used to be quite negative about going back to Greece and making something, but there is a certain kind of freedom that I've experienced while I was making films in Greece that is hard to replicate elsewhere.

For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

Let your soul and spirit fly.

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

Art is the method of levitation, in order to separate one's self from enslavement by the earth.

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.