Quotes About Art

It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.

There may be no single thing more important in our efforts to achieve meaningful work and fulfilling relationships than to learn to practice the art of communication.

A good poem about failure is a success.

The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Success is not fame or money or the power to bewitch. it is to have created something valuable from your own individuality and skill a garden, an embroidery, a painting, a cake, a life.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man.

I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.

God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.

You're building a tool, not a piece of art. Don't be blinded by the vision.

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.

I was lucky to have my wife as the art director, and it turned out to be quite something - a great success. I'm very proud of it.

Everyone wants instant everything, and they want instant success, but I always think you should treat things in the arts like a garden, and let them grow.

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend on it.

I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings. And I did it out of spite.

Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.