Sun Ra Quotes

You can’t teach art, so ART SCHOOL is a contradiction in terms.

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities

I have disciplined myself when I'm working. When I discovered art, I realized that one could keep that search going within creation. But I also realize that in order to create the art, you have to stay, you can't go too far.

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

The Arts are learnt by reason and method; they are mastered by practice.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

Creating art is a habit, one that we practice daily or hourly until we get good at it

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

If I'm painting, I paint every day. I'll be up in the studio from 8:00 in the morning to 8:00 at night.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.

I can concentrate on my art.

Craft is part of the creative process.

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

The heart of creativity is discipline.

In art, practice always comes before theory.