Juliette Lewis Quotes

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

There are some very powerful contributions to knowledge in the scientific world or the legal world, but art is singular. That's why every dictator gets rid of the artists first. They burn the books and execute the artists first. Then they get on with whatever else they're interested in. Art might do something. It's dangerous.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.

I can paint in jail.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

Art penetrates, no matter how many bans you put out.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

I like a canvas to breathe and be alive. Be alive is the point. And, as the limitations are something called pigment and canvas, let's see if I can do it.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and staff, my resting place and shield, and not mine only, for art leaves nobody out. Even those from whom art has been stolen away by tyranny, by poverty, begin to make it again. If the arts did not exist, at every moment, someone would begin to create them, in song, out of dust and mud, and although the artifacts might be destroyed, the energy that creates them is not destroyed.

My definition of art has always been the same. It is about freedom of expression. I don’t think anybody can separate art from politics. The intention to separate [the two] is itself a very political intention.

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

I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality.

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

We don't need to be taught to make art, but sometimes we need permission to do so. Following instructions is overrated.

Art simply can’t be stopped.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

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

The essential in artistic creativity is victory over the burden of necessity. In art, man lives outside himself, outside his burdens, the burdens of life. Every creative artistic act is a partial transfiguration of life. In the artistic concept man breaks out through the heaviness of the world. In the creative-artistic attitude towards this world we catch a glimpse of another world.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.