The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed – it is a process of elimination.
Elbert HubbardPerhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous HuxleyGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinAll great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
Maya AngelouThe art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard ShawDrawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Salvador DaliHow did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Dr. SeussYesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.
Hunter S. ThompsonLife is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Muhammad AliI learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
Steve JobsDoing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.
Anthony BourdainIf you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.
William ShakespeareNo greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
EpictetusWell, the future for me is already a thing of the past.
Bob Dylan‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Oscar WildeReligion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Arthur SchopenhauerTime is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Henry David ThoreauMusic is not math. It’s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Bruno MarsThis world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Henry David ThoreauThe biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI’m happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn’t a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
Maya AngelouThe arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.
Kurt VonnegutArt was, seriously, the only thing I’d ever wanted to own. It has always been for me a stable nourishment. I use it. It can change the way that I feel in the mornings.
David BowieThe magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing.
Anthony HopkinsI never look at my watch when I’m sketching!
Karl LagerfeldArt is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Oscar WildeTruly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert CamusI think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.
Douglas AdamsReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund BurkeThe momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis BaconA truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.
Bertrand RussellThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnTime discovers truth.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisThe finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David ThoreauA man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Albert CamusI experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van GoghBut if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
AristotleI just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.
Clint EastwoodWe want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Paulo CoelhoFor most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it ‚the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.‘ The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of ‚Artist.‘
Edgar Allan PoeUntil I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.
Richard P. FeynmanI’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
Karl LagerfeldTime is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Marcus AureliusI don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.
The WeekndI was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.
Abby Lee MillerI could hardly sit through ‚Frozen.‘ There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.
Jordan PetersonO, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.
Ludwig van BeethovenBeautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Martin LutherErrors are not in the art but in the artificers.
Isaac NewtonPainting, I think it’s like jazz.
Brian EnoI wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.
The WeekndIt seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.
AuroraI think the idea of art kills creativity.
Douglas AdamsArt is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
Elbert HubbardPoetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
David HareAll my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
Charlie ChaplinNo great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar WildeLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams