Robert Redford Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Seductive, Soul

• I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.

  Robert Redford

  Art, New York, Years

• I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Thinking, Expression

• The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

  Robert Redford

  Country, Art, Hurt

• I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

  Robert Redford

  Art, War, Book

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Wall, Fall

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The world around us is in a sea change, and I think the glory of art is that it cannot only survive change, it can lead it

  Robert Redford

  Art, Thinking, Sea

• Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Loneliness, Real

• It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.

  Robert Redford

  Music, Art, Expression

• The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Impact, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change my life. I was living hand to mouth. I walked everywhere. I thought, this city is incredible but you really have to experience it by walking it.

  Robert Redford

  Art, Hands, Years

  "Robert Redford: We Have to Act on Climate Change Without Washington". Interview with Vivienne Walt, time.com. December 06, 2015.

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