J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Art is science made flesh.

Art is both creation and recreation.

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

Make good art.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

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

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

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

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

In many ways my paintings are about energy — both in how they are created and the image itself.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

Art like life, should be free, since both are experimental.

As soon as something becomes art I think you get over the fear

I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.

We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Painting is more important than art.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.