Quotes About Artistic

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.

Pictures just come to my mind and I tell my heart to go ahead.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Art is a way of recognizing oneself.

I don't believe in an art that is not born out of man's need to open his heart.

Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

If the real world is orange juice, then art is like orange-juice concentrate.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

My art is not abstract, it lives and breathes

Most of the work I make uses materials that are a bit outside of the traditional fine art world.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

We know that all the arts are brothers, that each of them illuminates another, and that a universal light results.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

Art has always had as its test in the long term the ability to speak to our innermost selves.

The aim of art is to create space.

Any genuine work of art generates new work.

Art is a guarantee of sanity.

I've been slagged off completely by the art world and I don't know whether fancy being slagged off by the literary world as well. It's just too much.