Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches for every mistake I ever made, and I knit wet, swollen stitches that look awful. I knit the sun down.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.

Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

The artist is called a creator.

Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.

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

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

I love photography and I love the art of photography. So when I'm working with high-level art photographers, I give them artistic freedom because I want that for myself when it's my turn to do my work and I never try and control it or say I'll only do this or I want it like that.

You're confusing product with process. Most people, when they criticize, whether they like it or hate it, they're talking about product. That's not art, that's the result of art. Art, to whatever degree we can get a handle on (I'm not sure that we really can) is a process. It begins in the heart and the mind with the eyes and hands.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time.

I feel like at the end of the day, as entertaining as movies are, when you're part of them in a way, it's this beautiful art form and that's what it feels like for me. I'm not a painter, but I can express myself visually in a way that allows me to artistically create.