Quotes about Art

I saw an angel in the block of marble and I just chiseled 'til I set him free.

All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.

We must be clear about what we want to paint. This adds a further principle to our previous list of principles. We have said we must be fond of this world, even in order to change it.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

I'd love to do a whole soundtrack to a movie.

I think it's a big deal to have a great soundtrack for a movie.

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.

Writing in modern Hebrew is a bit like playing chamber music inside a huge, empty cathedral. If you are not very careful with the echoes, you may evoke some monstrosities.