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Quotes About Artistry

There is no summit in art; there is only continuous climbing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Customer research produces bland products. We're producing a piece of art.
~ Michael Arrington
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.
~ Michael Gungor
I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.
~ Neil Gaiman
At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.
~ Nicholas Ozeki
You can turn something into art just because of the way you tell people to look at it.
~ Nick Murphy
He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.
~ Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.
~ Pablo Casals
I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.
~ Patti Smith
Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.
~ Pauline Kael
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.
~ Pauline Kael
It is art to conceal art. -Ars est celare artem
~ Ovid
Art lies in concealing art.
~ Ovid
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eye is the best of artists.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.
~ Rita Williams-Garcia
While Mojo suggests any art that invokes supernatural powers, for us creators Mojovation means finding magic in what we do.
~ Robert Genn
Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
~ Robert Genn
The studio is an extension of the sandbox and the kindergarten playroom. It has a dynamic unlike any office or factory. It's a room at the service of a dreamer on her way to becoming a master.
~ Robert Genn
One of my goals is to create more art to put out there in the world.
~ Rose McGowan
Art can only be taught by artists.
~ Ruth Asawa
To admire on principle is the only way to imitate without loss of originality.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Shapewear is the canvas and the clothes are the art.
~ Sara Blakely
Art itself is underserved when we don't realize the power of it.
~ Saul Williams