Ralph Vaughan Williams Quotes

Every human being is an artist

Music is the expression of the will of nature while all other arts are expressions of the idea of nature.

Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters, musicians; it is the authentic expression of any and all individuality.

I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.

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

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

The roots of art and play lie very close together.

The art of making art, is putting it together.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.

Music makes me come alive. I love to sing and dance! Watching a great movie with a great message.

Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.

What makes someone an artist? I don't think is has anything to do with a paintbrush. There are painters who follow the numbers, or paint billboards, or work in a small village in China, painting reproductions. These folks, while swell people, aren't artists. On the other hand, Charlie Chaplin was an artist, beyond a doubt. So is Jonathan Ive, who designed the iPod. You can be an artist who works with oil paints or marble, sure. But there are artists who work with numbers, business models, and customer conversations. Art is about intent and communication, not substances.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

Art is something out of the ordinary commenting on the ordinary.

Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

Art is a form of consciousness.

What is art? It is not just nature, it is nurtured nature. It is intelligence applied to what physical ability you have.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

I just want to paint and say what I'm going to say.