Tom Stoppard Quotes

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.' Now everyone makes something, and those who make things on a canvas with a frame, they're called artists. Formerly, they were called craftsmen, a term I prefer. We're all craftsmen, in civilian or military or artistic life.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

My mom is a sculptress.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Talent works, genius creates.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.