Wes Craven Quotes

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Art was always my thing. I had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I'm a left-handed, right-brained, painting-drawing guy. That was always my skill.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

All men are creative but few are artists.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

My skills are not of the highest caliber, but I know a thing or two, and I occasionally produce a painting that contains passages of truth and beauty.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

That's the very definition of freedom: to be allowed to develop our own creative potential to the fullest. But it doesn't have to be in the arts, obviously. In my case, I gravitated toward the arts.

I'm born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who could not draw.'

I can draw really well.

It is by developing the individual that he is prepared for that wonderful manifestation of the human intelligence, which drawing constitutes. The ability to see reality in form, in color, in proportion, to be master of the movements of one's own hand - that is what is necessary.

The best of any artist is in their art.

Rap has always been about using your talents for doing more.

I started using this outlet of creativity - you know, going to the studio, writing, meeting these writers and producers - as the best form of representing myself to my fullest potential.

As much as I love storytelling, I've always been drawn to talent.

Since I liked to draw, I entered a design-oriented high school.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.