Quotes About Artistry

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

The temple of art is built in words.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

Art is the escape from personality.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I want to act because I don't know how to do anything else.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I, in the end, make art for myself.

Art is supposed to punch you in the brain, and it's supposed to stay punched.

An artist should have more than two eyes.

In art, you CAN crash your plane and walk away from it

The aesthetic principle is the same in every art, only the material differs.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

In sharp contrasts to traditional art, modern art does not hide the fact that it is something made and produced: on the contrary, it underscores the fact.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.