Robert Musil Quotes

The things keeping you back-these embarrassing, boring, stupid obstacles-are the heart of what it is to be human. They’re the whole reason for making and needing art. So you might as well go ahead and begin in whatever way you can right now.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

I was brought up feeling that art is a very important part of one's life. It's something that I not only enjoy, it's something I can share with others.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.

I have so much love for art.

My intention was to create something that people loved to look at and they could find inspiration from, and that was it.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches nothing about life, just as life teaches us nothing about art.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Love is the sum of all the arts, as it is the reason for their existence.

Mere enthusiasm is the all in all... / Passion and expression are beauty itself.

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Art is the highest form of hope.

Writing music is like tasting the sky. It keeps me dreaming in color.

At moments we are all artists.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Art is the funnel, as it were, through which spirit is poured into life.