Lupita Nyong'o Quotes

Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

An empty canvas is full.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

Art depends on luck and talent.

What I'm good at is making art.

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

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

My mom is a sculptress.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The animators are absolutely extraordinary. It's mind-boggling.

Art is all in the details.

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