T Bone Burnett Quotes

We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

That's the great thing about art. Anybody can do it if you just believe. With practice, you can make great paintings.

I was never a good artist.

The best of any artist is in their art.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.

I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves.

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Unfortunately, the Egyptians weren't the greatest artists in the world.

When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

The art gods cooked up something special for James Ensor.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.

Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

The only thing they can't teach you at art school is art.