Theophile Gautier Quotes

In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

I don't think there's anything really wrong with influence because I think that one can use another man's art as material either literally or just implying that they're doing that, without it representing a lack of a point of view.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument.

Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.

The art, the new, the ability to connect the dots and to make an impact - sooner or later, that can only come from one who creates, not from a teacher and not from a book.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

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

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.