14,373 Quotes About Art

I keep falling deep down into my abyss…I exist for the art of existence.

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too?

In musical performances one can sense that the person on stage is having a good time even if they're singing a song about breaking up or being in a bad way. For an actor this would be anathema, it would destroy the illusion, but with singing one can have it both ways. As a singer, you can be transparent and reveal yourself on stage, in that moment, and at the same time be the person whose story is being told in the song. Not too many kinds of performance allow that.

Remember, creativity is like a compass, each one has its own, and each one points to a different North.

The painter copies this bed from one point of view. He is thus at three removes from reality. He does not understand the bed, he does not measure it, he could not make it.

Kreativität muss gar nichts. Kreativität DARF. Vor allem, in alle Richtungen.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.