Alfred de Vigny Quotes

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Once something is memorable, it's living and you're using it. That to me is the foundation of a creative society.

What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

I can't think of anything outside of having the gift yourself and creating yourself. I can't think of the next better thing to do than being able to put it back. Creative expression, I think, is vital to the success of any society.... A society without art will die.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting.

The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of time cannot drag it back.

Making really great music, making really great films, writing great books is an antidote to all of that. And, as people, as artists, some of the massive disruption that technology is causing is so exciting, the way that people can share creativity now.

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.

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.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.

Now, that can be a traditional form or it can be something you're inventing. It can be the development of a metaphor, the working through of a metaphor.

Arts is like the power of now. When you're performing, when you're playing, when you're sculpting, painting, it's that moment. I'm in the moment of my life, and that's what I love to do.

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Only the poor can create art.

Art is a technique of communication. The image is the most complete technique of all communication.