Charles Bukowski Quotes

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

All men are creative but few are artists.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

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

There are an awful lot of people in the world and it's going to be terribly hard to photograph all of them... It was my teacher Lisette Model who finally made it clear to me that the more specific you are, the more general it will be.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Normal people do not create art.

Art is about eliminating almost everything in order to focus on the thing that you need to talk about.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

Eloquence is a painting of thought; and thus those who, after having painted it, add something more, make a picture instead of a portrait.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I will preach with my brush.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

I'm an artist at heart.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Art is science made clear.

I believe in art.