Arthur Miller Quotes

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

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

I'm not going to be like, "I gotta get this idea out of my head." It's like, "OK, here's a clean slate, and I've got all these paints, and all these brushes, and this is what I'm going to do with it." It reveals itself, and you take a step back and say, "What's happening here? Where are we going? What does this mean? Do I need to break it open? Does it need to just be what it is? Should it end now?"

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

When I make a picture, I make love.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

We have such a great depth of human history in all of the arts, whether it's opera or mathematics or painting or classical music or jazz. There's so many things to study, new books to read, and certainly always ways to transform old ideas and to come up with new ones.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.

Making art is different for everyone.

Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

For me, drawing generates thinking and vice versa.

As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art.