Art Quotes

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Art is the lie that tells the truth.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards -- in the life of an artist.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

People can misinterpret almost anything so that it coincides with views they already hold. They take from art what they already believe.

All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he� for some reason� thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Bad artists copy. Great artists steal.