Art Quotes

True art comes from flying with the madness so close you burn your eyelashes.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that’s all.

We don’t all dig Shakespeare uniformly, or even ‘Little Red Riding Hood.’ The understanding of art depends finally upon one’s willingness to extend one’s humanity and one’s knowledge of human life.

I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

Art for me…is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of society.

I am a canvas, that I design with colors of identity to madness filled masterpiece of worthiness.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

The object of art is to intensify feeling, color or sound.