J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

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

The artist is called a creator.

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books!

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.

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

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.

In terms of art, the only real answer that I know of is to do it. If you don't do it, you don't know what might happen.

A lot of time when I'm creating songs, they're in real time. When I'm writing the song, I feel what I'm feeling for its full potential. As soon as the song is over, I'm like, I created art.

The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

Take a step, breathe in the world, give it out again in story, poem, song, art.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

The making of art is no different than prayer.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

The Biblical story of the creation is an excellent parable of movement. The work of art, too, is above all a process of creation, it is never experienced as a mere product.

To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art

No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making.

When things get tough... Make good art.

An artist is someone who makes art... He didn't invent it.