Quotes About Art

The War of Art,

I don't create art to get high-dollar projects, I do high-dollar projects so I can create more art.

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield. This book has a magical, activating quality

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Art Is Socialism, but Life Is Capitalism "My wife made the observation that everyone's equal on stage, but off stage, they're completely unequal." Mike wrote down, "Art is socialism but life is capitalism," and that became a guiding principle for his film Don't Think Twice.

The Art of Simple Food by Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters lined

It's worth taking a look at the supposed indignities of "serving" someone else. Because in reality, not only is the apprentice model responsible for some of the greatest art in the history of the world—everyone from Michelangelo to Leonardo da Vinci to Benjamin Franklin has been forced to navigate such a system

Kristen is the author of The Art of Fear: Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to Do Instead.

No es necesario que sacrifiques la integridad de tu arte para tener unos ingresos respetables. Basta con que crees una gran experiencia y cobres por ella.

The elites sneer at commerce as tawdry, but it's what gives people what they want and need, and pays for everything else, including the luxury of art.

The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help. I read it and upgraded my life in an afternoon of asking for help.

You do not have to sacrifice the integrity of your art for a respectable income. You just need to create a great experience and charge enough.

La persona que despeja el camino es la que controla en última instancia su dirección, de la misma manera que el lienzo da forma al cuadro.

When people say: 'You do so many things. You're a musician, you're a painter, you're a composer, you're a cinematographer, you're the editor. You do so many different things.' I go, 'No, I only do one thing. I live a creative life. When you put creativity in everything, everything becomes available to you.' .

Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it's a road to misery. If art is your sole source of income, then there's unrelenting pressure on that art, and mercenary pressure is the enemy of the creative elves inside you trying to get the work done.

I believe that music and people don't mix; that music should be appreciated alone without seeing or knowing who the musicians are and without other people around. Just listening to music for its own sake, not listening to the people around you and not filtered through what you know about the musician's personal life.

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible."—Javier Pascual Salcedo

Jan Kounen's "Ayahuasca Visions" on YouTube.

The Art of Possibility, de Rosamund Stone Zander

La guerra del arte es uno de esos trabajos que te hacen exclamar

Just Kids, de Patti Smith:

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense.