Art Quotes

"The artistic principle is salvation through transformation of trauma."

"All art is a kind of confession."

"The poet (and I include the film-maker) is the priest of the invisible."

"Loving her was green."

"Art is the effort to convey what cannot be spoken."

"The act of creating beauty is an act of defiance against despair."

"I like flowers, music, art, and people."

"Art is the expression of the soul."

"Art must be born from the deepest pain and the highest aspirations."

"The work of art is an act of honesty."

"Art is the voice of those whom society has silenced."

"The artist must tell the truth, even when it is painful."

"Art has the power to illuminate what society wishes to keep hidden."

"Art created from authentic experience transcends the particular to touch the universal."

"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and gets caught somewhere in the heart."

"I've got a woman's body and a child's emotions."

"The invisible made visible through the visible."

"Writing saved me from the sin and doom of believing that I had a chance."

"We breathe so that we can speak, and we speak so that we can create meaning."

"The function of art is to illuminate the invisible."

"I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best."

"Art should express the experience of the people, not their oppression."

"Art must be a mirror of reality, not an escape from it."

"I sought to write the way life actually feels, not the way it is supposed to be."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"All art is a kind of confession."

"Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war."

"Artists are here to disturb the peace."

"Art and beauty have always been my refuge from a harsh world."

"I believe that art is the soul's way of expressing what the mind cannot articulate."