Josiah Wedgwood Quotes

Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

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

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time required to make it, and the greater the number of different minds which assisted in its development.

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

I certainly like it if the work is beautiful, but that's a surplus effect. I can only think about that after I consider how it's made.

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

People from the past always seem to have much more time to create beautiful, intricate, delicate things that often reach the future in a kind of curled-up, capsized state.

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run

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

If you write beautifully, you write beautifully, that's all.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

To end up with a canvas that is no less beautiful than the empty canvas is to begin with.

The art of making art, is putting it together.