Quotes About Artistry

This might end up in crying. If you're not prepared to cry about it, I'm not sure you're making art. And if you're not prepared to dance in anticipation, you're definitely not making art.

I wonder if real art comes when you build the thing that they don't have a prize for yet.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts . . .

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

An artist should use freely whatever materials he pleases.

There can be no formula in arts. Formulas are for factory mass productions. There are no discoveries in already discovered formulas.

Art takes whatever - and as long as - it takes.

Still to this day, I am deeply satisfied when watching a guitar player who is connected with their art and instrument. GuitarTV helps you tap into that connection, and to each other.

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

Writing is an art like other arts. Dancers don't dance every once in a while. Musicians don't stop practicing. They are dedicated to what they do.

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

It's exciting to consider how art, in its ability to reveal, can be ahead of the artist.

Art can sometimes be separate from the artist.

Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

An artist who desires very little and achieves it has failed in life.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

When they asked Michelangelo how he made his statue of David he is reported to have said "It is easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn't look like David."

Art fuels the fire inside me.

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter.