George Clooney Quotes

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

The artist is called a creator.

I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.

I think about sculpture all the time. I work at it for ten to twelve hours a day. I even dream about it. If as a result I was only to produce something that everyone immediately understood I would't have been thinking very profoundly.

As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

We started to confuse entertainment with art, because art has a component of entertainment. It has to have that or it becomes too boring. It becomes too lost in its own devices. But I just think that we started to lose, and even before that, it's not necessary.

Most artists create foundations where they put their own work. Here I'm not putting my own work. I'm just creating the chambers.

I do not like to be a prophet. I like better to paint than to predict what the next painters will do. Though I have a feeling that consideration of order is very much in the air.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

Beijing is constructing a 100,000 m2 modern art museum, yet it will not feature any of my work.

Those who are concerned with the arts are often asked questions, not always sympathetic ones, about the use or value of what they are doing. It is probably impossible to answer such questions directly, or at any rate to answer the people who ask them.