Quotes About Artistry

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.

Art does not reflect what is seen, rather it makes the hidden visible.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

Art is doing something you really believe in.

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it.

A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.

Creating something that is universally beautiful. That is art.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

You have treated the arts as the cherry on the cake. It needs to be the yeast.

Art is a sense of magic.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.