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Quotes About Artistry

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.
~ Unknown
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
~ Ludwig van Beethoven
Art destroys silence.
~ Alicia Ostriker
An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
~ Pablo Picasso
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
~ Beatrice Wood
The best art always comes unbidden.
~ Unknown
To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
~ Walter Darby Bannard
In the art game we do our own cooking.
~ Sara Genn
Don't think about making art.
~ Andy Warhol
It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.
~ Philip Pearlstein
Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.
~ Stephen Boss
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
~ Auguste Rodin
A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.
~ Robert Breault
Good swiping is an art in itself.
~ Jules Feiffer
Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.
~ Tom Ford
The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!
~ Unknown
Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.
~ Tina Brown
My art has nothing to do with servicing collectors, it's for living, for turning on with.
~ David Lee
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.
~ Philipp Meyer
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
~ Julia Cameron
art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
~ Dore Ashton
Art, if it is successful, needs no explanation.
~ Leonard Nimoy
I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.
~ Chali 2na
When your art fails, make better art.
~ Seth Godin