Quotes About Artistry

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself.

Art is when things appear rounded.

I'm also inspired by great art and people who create and contribute rather than destroy.

Art is arbitrary but it sort of reveals itself to be right or wrong anyway.

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making.

Someone told me once that to create true art you must be willing to bleed and let others watch.

How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

timeliness is an enemy to art.

I've always cared more about taking pictures than about the art market.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

Art that only comes from the head isn't any good. Watch any good musician and you'll see what I mean.

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.

I don't believe that you can put content into art. The content is in yourself.

If it looks like art, chances are it's somebody else's art.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

A lot of people who get into any art form have some form of mental..something in their head which is unstable

It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.