Neil Gaiman Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

• When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Art, Husband

• When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Stars, Confused

• I don't think immediate tragedy is a very good source of art. It can be, but too often it's raw and painful and un-dealt-with. Sometimes art can be a really good escape from the intolerable, and a good place to go when things are bad, but that doesn't mean you have to write directly about the bad thing; sometimes you need to let time pass, and allow the thing that hurts to get covered with layers, and then you take it out, like a pearl, and you make art out of it.

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  Art, Hurt, Mean

• So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.

  Neil Gaiman

  New Year, Art, Mistake

  "My New Year Wish" by Neil Gaiman, journal.neilgaiman.com. December 31, 2011.

• Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do. Make good art.

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  Art, Way, Tough

  Commencement address at the University of the Arts, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

• I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

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  Art, Empty Places, Sometimes

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

• I think you have to accept that an artist also has a relationship with his or her art and his or her fans: you are in an open relationship whether you like it or not. Give the artist room to go into the place they create (literally or metaphorically) . And love them when they can't remember where they put their keys.

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  Art, Thinking, Keys

  "An Evening With Neil Gaiman And Amanda Palmer: Ask Us Anything. Go On. Go On You Know You Want To". Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 19, 2013.

• When you start out on a career in the arts you have no idea what you are doing. This is great. People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can. If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.

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  Art, Book, Possible And Impossible

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

• They were kissing. Put like that, and you could be forgiven for presuming that this was a normal kiss, all lips and skin and possibly even a little tongue. You'd miss how he smiled, how his eyes glowed. And then, after the kiss was done, how he stood, like a man who had just discovered the art of standing and had figured out how to do it better than anyone else who would ever come along.

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  Art, Eye, Kissing

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

• Where does contagion end and art begin?

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  Art, Doe, Ends

  Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Polenth Blake, Leah Bobet, Das Indrapramit (2015). “The Humanity of Monsters”, p.172, ChiZine

• I don't think it would be fun to write after inhaling art fumes. (What are art fumes?) No, I just make stuff up. It's easier that way.

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  Art, Fun, Writing

• Doing fine, thank you, I would say, never knowing how to talk about what I do. If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my heart. Some of them. Not all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, Knowing, Empty Places

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2013.

• When things go wrong, this is what you should do. Make good art.

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  Art, Should, When Things Get Tough

• Parameters are the things you bounce off to create art.

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  Art, Parameters, Bounce

• Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before: make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, eventually time will take the sting away, and it doesn’t even matter. Do what only you can do best: make good art.

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  Art, Stupid, Thinking

• There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.

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  Art, Play, Usa

  "Neil Gaiman Interview". Interview with Trevor Valle, www.bitingdogpress.com.

• There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

  Neil Gaiman

  Art, What Matters, Culture

  "Ask the Author Live: Dana Goodyear with Neil Gaiman". www.newyorker.com. January 15, 2010.

• If I were only allowed to read or enjoy art or listen to music made by people whose opinions and beliefs were the same as mine, I think the world would be a pretty dismal sort of a place.

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  Art, Thinking, People

• I am fascinated a) by transgressive art and b) what happens beyond the boundaries.

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  Art, Boundaries, Happens

• I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.

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  Art, Thinking, Stories

• When things get tough... Make good art.

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  Art, Tough, When Things Get Tough

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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