Shea Hembrey Quotes

If you're a painter, you're not alone. There's no way to be alone.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

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

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.

The artist is called a creator.

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.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

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

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

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

Art is both creation and recreation.

The artist and his work are not to be separated. The most willfully foolish man cannot stand aloof from his folly, but the deed and the doer together make ever one sober fact.

I find that it's a very odd thing to think of competition when you're talking about what I still think of as art. I don't think of competing with actors or filmmakers at all. You do compete, in a way, at the box office, but we're far enough apart when both films are coming out that I'm not concerned with that either.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius, and to make the man of genius believe he can only do what is to be done by mechanical rules and systematic industry. This is not a very feasible scheme; nor is Sir Joshua sufficiently clear and explicit in his reasoning in support of it.

You get caught up in a cycle at some point, so I broke the cycle and decided; I'm going to really write a lot of books, because I need to get in touch with that part of myself in order to make more music.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art. Eliot said that art is the escape from personality, which I think is right. We know that Velázquez embezzled money from the Spanish court and wanted power and so on, but you can't see this in his art.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Everything in the world was about creativity: belief and creation. Storytelling was the essence of both.

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

I personally just love movies about the creative process.

My life and art have not been separated. They have been together.

If artists do have ideas, they're often not great.