Creating Art Quotes - Page 2

• Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Art, Expression

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• … lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and … stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Eye, Thinking

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• Everything starts from a dot.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Drawing

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• great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

  Seth Godin

  Art, Practice, Creating

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• 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.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Creating, Hey

  "Yoko Ono On Lennon, Love, Feminism, And Japan". Interview with Deenah Vollmer, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 22, 2011.

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• We can't suddenly quit a job and then race to find a form of art that will pay off before the next mortgage payment is due.  Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it … Art isn’t about the rush of victory that comes from being picked. Nor does it involve compliance. Art in the post-industrial age is a lifelong habit, a stepwise process that incrementally allows us to create more art.

  Seth

  Life, Art, Jobs

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• I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieves my illness is to keep creating art. I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live.

  Yayoi Kusama

  Art, Pain, Fighting

  Yayoi Kusama (2013). “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama”, p.60, Tate Enterprises Ltd

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• What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.

  Adam Braun

  Inspiring, Uplifting, Art

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• Drawing creates its own kind of private space. Coupled with certain interests that I want to speak to in my art, it's really kind of a safe haven for me. Creating art is not only a comfort zone, but also a way of speaking to my passions.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Passion, Safe Haven

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The process of creating art allows me to learn about the subject I'm illustrating. So, if I want to learn more about plantation life and slavery, I try to find clients that will give me an opportunity to work on projects that will visualize those experiences of the enslaved African and people of color. I get to learn about my roots, and my artwork allows the reader into that world by creating images that are accessible.

  Jerry Pinkney

  Art, Opportunity, Color

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Jobs, Mean

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• Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there'll always be better writers than you and there'll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you.

  Neil Gaiman

  Inspiring, People, Stories

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• The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspiring, Flower, Artist

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• Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

  Robert Henri

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

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• Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

  Gary Holland

  Art, Communication, Creating

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• Every artist should live by these words: Never feel bad about successfully selling your creations. Never feel bad about creating art you can't sell.

  Marc Ecko

  Art, Creating, Creation

  Marc Ecko (2015). “Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. Stop settling for what's good enough and start creating art that matters.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Creating, Maps

  Seth Godin (2010). “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?”, p.7, Penguin

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• Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.

  Deena Metzger

  Art, Creativity, Creating

  Deena Metzger (2009). “Writing for Your Life: Discovering the Story of Your Life's Jou”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• How do we fight back? By creating art.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• If I was asked to get rid of the Zen aesthetic and just keep one quality necessary to create art, I would say it's trust. When you learn to trust yourself implicitly, you no longer need to prove something through your art. You simply allow it to come out, to be as it is. This is when creating art becomes effortless. It happens just as you grow your hair. It grows.

  John Daido Loori

  Art, Creating, Hair

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• The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

  George Bellows

  Inspiring, Artist, Creative

  Marjorie B. Searl, George Bellows, Ronald Netsky, University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery (2003). “Leaving for the country: George Bellows at Woodstock”, Memorial Art Gallery of Univ

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• I am preoccupied with the possibility of creating art which functions in a public situation without compromising its private character of being antiheroic, antimonumental, antiabstract, and antigeneral. The paradox is intensified by the use on a grand scale of small-scale subjects known from intimate situations--an approach which tends in turn to reduce the scale of the real landscape to imaginary dimensions.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Art, Real, Character

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• The Street is as large as consciousness itself. So, when creating art for the street, be mindful of where the public's head is at these days. Give the public a real alternative to the strict diet of celebrity gossip, religion, and un-reality television.

  Eric Drooker

  Art, Real, Celebrity Gossip

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• Computers creating art is an upsetting concept mostly because of what it means about humans.

  Jonny Lee Miller

  Art, Mean, Creating

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