“Art is creating something taking it from the future and seeing it in the present.”
“Art makes you feel things that you cannot put to words.”
“Beauty is any aspect of art, or anything, that makes an individual feel positive and happy.”
“Nietzsche's philosophy contends that art is a way to avoid dying from truths. He argues that by engaging in it, we can create something that is not true and thus prevent ourselves from being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of reality.”
“Romanticism is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It's a retaliation to the industrial revolution, while people were gathering into cities, a few went back to nature.”
“Thoughts give birth to dreams like how culture gives birth to artists.”
“My written and painted thoughts, for which alone I have colours, many colours, perhaps, many multicoloured softenings, and fifty yellows and browns and greens and reds.”
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
“A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”
“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”
“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
“Nothing. I just felt that this posture of yours was really rare. So I stopped to admire it for a while.”
“All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
“Handel is the greatest composer who has ever lived. I would uncover my head and kneel at his grave.”
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. That is to say, real art takes no part in molding the social or moral identities of society, nor should it. Art had no moral responsibility. Art, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.”
“Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought.”