Quotes About Artistry

The art of acting is to be other than what you are.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

The importance of an artist is to be measured by the quantity of new signs which he has introduced to the language of art.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

Art is a by-product of an honest and successful attempt to do something well.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

Art is really about how you capture different things you see around you and bring them into forms and words and shapes and meaning.

Art is not meant to be created in stolen moments only.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

Art is manipulation, the management of material, the directing of fate... Who does that directing?

Art is a wicked thing. It is what we are.

Art isn't everything. It's just about everything.

The same person is coming through in a different medium.... My art is simple, direct and definite.

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs.

Art is great only when it bears the stamp of the individual.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

The artist is a kind of prison from which the works of art escape.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

Art is the employent of the powers of nature for an end.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

I'm extremely critical. I don't consider myself a performance artist. I balk at the term performance art.