artistic nature Quotes

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Artists are, I think in general, compassionate people, and part of what makes us artists is that we're open-minded people, and I think we're almost, by definition, progressive in a lot of ways.

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.

Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.

Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.

I was quiet, and I was artistic. I liked writing poetry, and that was very strange, so I was bullied a lot.

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.

One mentions many artists who are actually art works of nature.

I usually don't like to 'spoon feed' my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.

Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.

For man is by nature an artist.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark!

I've always been creative, I think.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

In the work of art the truth of an entity has set itself to work. ‘To set’ means here: to bring to a stand. Some particular entity, a pair of peasant shoes, comes in the work to stand in the light of its being. The being of the being comes into the steadiness of its shining. The nature of art would then be this: the truth of being setting itself to work.

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.