Artistic Devotion Quotes

You've got to find what you love and let it kill you. I don't think any of us should ever forget that.

That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman--the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God.

I'll do whatever it takes for a movie. I don't really care what that is.

My art form is my child, and that's what I give my focus to.

I've never believed in God, but I believe in Picasso.

If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Fatherland before everything, art afterward.

I will die for the art & what I believe in. The art ain't always gon' be polite.

I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist.

I just don't think it honors God to create mediocre art.

I start out making my paintings for me. I don't see it as a form of communication. Until, of course, after they are done and I want people to see them. And want them to be recognized. But while I am making them I just try to get lost in them. Kind of like it's a prayer.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

A life lived for art, is never a life wasted.

I'm grateful to God that I'm able to praise his glory through my music.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

To an artist, creating an image means being in love with it.

Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.