Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

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.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions.

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.

As an artist, I really feel I need an outlet to exhibit all of my skills.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

The artist is called a creator.

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.

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.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.