Quotes About Artistry

Where the material ends, art begins.

It's hard to play with a bagpipe player. It's like an exotic bird. I love the sound, it's like strangling a goose.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Sleep with rockstars...Support the arts.

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

We're all works of art in progress.

I don't like hype cluttering art.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

There is no art without Eros.

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie.

Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes visible.

I think you can be contemporary without taking your clothes off.

Painting is more important than art.

I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.