Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you practice an art, be proud of it and make it proud of you It may break your heart, but it will fill your heart before it breaks it; it will make you a person in your own right.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
To engage with art, we have to be willing to be wrong, venture outside our psychic comfort zones, suspend disbelief, and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
I'm committed to the purity of my art form.
Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.