478 Quotes About Arts

We are all born as storytellers. Our inner voice tells the first story we ever hear.

That music can connect us. There is joy in the world.

Righteous, I like that. Kinda fitting when you think about it. If we danced and shared music, we'd be too busy en-joy-in' life to start a war.

Fascinated by the great symbols of the collective history, I use them as an alphabet to communicate.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!

The value of an artist is more because of his originality than his skill.

It’s so easy to lose faith and become lost in all of the politics of the world. That’s why we need the arts. To sublimate our frustration and anger into something beautiful. Freud called sublimation a virtuous defence mechanism because it is in the arts that we can find our humanity.

Encourage all artists; for it’s how we get a glimpse of others’ realities.

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.