I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

Life is short, the art long.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don’t know what that is; I don’t think too much about that.

Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.

Give a critic an inch, he’ll write a play.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

I can’t act!

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

I’ve been trying to… Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

I went to see ‚Phantom of the Opera‘ with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music… Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time – the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

Music is something no one can control.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘