Artistic Soul Quotes

Where are the forms the sculptor's soul hath seized? In him alone, Can nature show as fair?

Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

You act with your soul. That's why you all want to be actors, because your souls are not used up by life.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit.

An actor works with their soul and their thought.

Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

A work of art is like a person: it has more than one soul in its breast.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Sometimes people save the best part of themselves for their art.

Music - some people just don't know that part of me.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.

Music comes from the soul. It's a way to express yourself, so we always, always need to save the music.

Peter Cooper looks at the world with an artist's eye and a human heart and soul. His songs are the work of an original, creative imagination, alive with humor and heartbreak and irony and intelligence, with truth and beauty in the details. Deep stuff. And they get better every time you listen to them.

What the soul is to the body, so is the artist to his people.

Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.

It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

Still follow sense, of ev'ry art the soul, Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole.