Quotes About Art

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.

When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

The poet must work with brush and paper,but this is not what makes the poem. A man does not go in search of a poem - the poem comes in search of him.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.

As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'

There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

I love my work but do not know how I write it.

I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.

I'm always amazed at how people make work no matter how intense the pressure.

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile?

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

Tanacity is the dance within the art of opportunity

Time is the raw material for creation