The Art Quotes
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.
To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.
Humans make art to remember and be remembered, ” said Caius. “Art is their weapon against forgetting.
Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling lik
Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.
The modern artist is working with space and time and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change
The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..
There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do.
And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.
Art is a kind of mining, " he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.
Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
I like a girl with a substantial bottom, ' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.
(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the emotions of childhood.
I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.
As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits and sell insurance... The world needs more boundary pushers, not more boundary creators.
Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.
Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.
When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.
Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.
