John Ruskin Quotes

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

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

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

Art is a sense of magic.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. I was exposed to it since I was very small.

I can concentrate on my art.

Art is giving to what you create a soul.

It takes skill to bring something you've imagined into the world: to use words to create believable lives, to select the colors and textures of paint to represent a haystack at sunset, to combine ingredients to make a flavorful dish. No one is born with that skill. It is developed through exercise, through repitition, through a blend of learning and reflection that's both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time. . . . 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.

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.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

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

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

I love what Monet, Picasso, Van Gogh and Jesus all said - that love is really the driving principle of the creative act. In fact, they would say that great art is always inspired by love.

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.

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

Art is not only about angst.

Art depends on luck and talent.