Bethany Hamilton Quotes

I just love his creativity; that's what I'm talking about as far as being unique and creative and different. Kanye is doing it.

I will preach with my brush.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.

I like to create.

I can concentrate on my art.

I try to make things that are fresh and different, even if they are inspired by classic things.

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

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

I always talk about if you want to be an artist, you have to be authentic because people can tell bullshit a mile away. There is nothing wrong with creating a character, standing behind that character, and that being an authentic performance piece, because that's a piece of art as well. But if you want to be an artist in any form, you have to know to come with it.

I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a painting that can talk. And it's pure play. I think every artist needs to stay in touch with the idea of playing. The artist should always be playing, always. All art is performance.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette but if I do then within that, I can be creative.

The artist is very lucky, because in an art form that's spontaneous like jazz, that's when you really see your true self. And that's why, when I put down my instrument, that's when the challenge starts, because to learn how to be that kind of human being at that level that you are when you're playing - that's the key, that's the hard part.

The pride of the artisan in his art and its uses is pride in himself...It is in his skill and ability to make things as he wishes them to be that he rejoices.

Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.

A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon.

Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.

Creativity belongs to the artist in each of us. To create means to relate. The root meaning of the word art is 'to fit together' and we all do this every day.

Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

If you can shape your business life or your working life, you can just look at it as another extension - you just fulfill all your values as a human being in the work place. If you are an activist, you bring the activism of your life into your business, or if you love creative art, you can bring that in.