Dan Simmons Quotes

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

I think as an actor, or any artist, you move with your moods and you express what's going on for you, and you answer to that voice within that's calling for particular things.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

I always say that intuition is the number one tool for an artist.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

My art in my head just needs to come out for me - for my legacy and who I am.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that connects with something inside of him. All you have as your guide is that you know what moves you. All you have to do it with is a brush, some chemical and canvas, and technique.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

The artist is called a creator.

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

When a painting is finished, it's like a new born child, and the artist himself must have time for understanding. How then do you expect an amateur to understand that which the artist dos not yet comprehend.

The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.

Color and I are one. I am a painter.