Quotes About Art

I believe that what we want to write wants to be written. I believe that as I have an impulse to create, the something I want to create has an impulse to want to be born. My job, then, is to show up on the page and let that something move

Para ser realmente inmortal, una obra de arte debe escapar de todos los límites humanos: la lógica y el sentido común sólo interfieren. Pero una vez se han roto estas barreras, entrará en los reinos de las visiones y de los sueños de la infancia». GIORGIO DE CHIRICO

I am willing to be of service through my creativity.

Todo niño es un artista. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista una vez que se crece».

When well-meaning parents and friends push marriage or nine-to-five or anything on us that doesn't evolve in a way that allows for our art to continue, we will react as if we are fighting for our lives—we are.

Pintar no es más que otra forma de llevar un diario».

Many artists begin a piece of work, get well along in it, and then find, as they near completion, that the work seems mysteriously drained of merit. To therapists, this surge of sudden disinterest ... is a routine coping device employed to ... ward off vulnerability.

El arte de escuchar nos proporciona sanación, perspicacia y lucidez. Nos regala alegría y perspectiva. Por encima de todo, nos proporciona conexión.

If we let ourselves notice, writing feels collaborative. It is a dance between reality and us as an observer.

Aprendí a quitarme de en medio y a dejar que esa energía vital se expresara a través de mí.

Para vivir una vida creativa debemos perder el miedo a estar equivocados».

Writing may be an art, but it is certainly a craft.

Para ser realmente inmortal, una obra de arte debe escapar de todos los límites humanos: la lógica y el sentido común sólo interfieren. Pero una vez se han roto estas barreras, entrará en los reinos de las visiones y de los sueños de la infancia».

El arte saca las cosas a la luz. Nos ilumina. Arroja luz sobre la oscuridad que hay en nosotros. Proyecta un rayo luminoso sobre el corazón de nuestras sombras y dice, «¿ves?».

La pintura es un intento de asumir la vida. Existen tantas soluciones como seres humanos». GEORGE TOOKER

interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. "How like art

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight. AMOS FERGUSON

Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail. Art may seem to spring from pain, but perhaps that is because pain serves to focus our attention onto details ... the singular image is what haunts us and becomes art. Even in the midst of pain, this singular image brings delight.

En consecuencia puede que ni siquiera sepan que son artistas.

I learned to just show up to the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping ... I didn't have to be in the mood ... Good, bad? None of my business. I wasn't doing it.

When we chop and pare vegetables, we do so with our thoughts as well. Remember, art is an artist-brain pursuit. This brain is reached through rhythm—through rhyme, not reason. Scraping a carrot, peeling an apple—these actions are quite literally food for thought.

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we SHOULD do something else instead ... the Great Creator has gifted us with creativity. Our gift back is our use of it.

An act of art needs time to mature. Judged early, it may be judged incorrectly.

tu artista es un niño y necesita alimentarse.