Kathleen Hanna Quotes

I love the creative process and being able to build something out of nothing.

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.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.

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

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I like to create.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Art is the child of Nature.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Make good art.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.