Andrei Codrescu Quotes

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.

There's this feeling of creativity in Iceland.

I don't know many artists who've come out of Beverly Hills, y'know? You need that struggle.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

Avant-garde art jousts with propriety, but takes care never to unseat it.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art.

Art is both creation and recreation.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.