John Ruskin Quotes

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

A work of art is not a matter of thinking beautiful thoughts or experiencing tender emotions , but of intelligence, skill, taste, proportion, knowledge, discipline and industry; especially discipline.

Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I believe in art.

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

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin - find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less.

When I see a beautiful piece of art, it inspires me to be creative.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.

Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.

Art is one of the dirtiest words in our language; it's mucked up with all kinds of meanings. There's the art of plumbing; there's the art of almost anything that you can say.