Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.

Beauty is its own excuse.

I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing.

I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a picture of a tree and agree that the tree is beautiful and move on with our lives. I wouldn't even need to show up.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

Painting was a problem - you produce a thing, and then you sell it and get money, and that was quickly considered totally uncool.

When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could have created it just like that. When I make poems, I use the words we all use, but the order and the sound create a new power. This wood is someone's creation. We stumble through it's tendrils, as if we're crawling through the synapses of his mind.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life.

Part of my gradual education of myself has been to think that there is a deep relationship between the nature of the creature and the worth of the art.

Each man must take the material that he finds at hand, see that in it there are the big truths of life, the fundamentally big forces, and then express in his art whatever is the cause of his pleasure.

If there was no risk, it wouldn't be art. It wouldn't be worth making. There is risk even in a fairy tale. Fiction is closest to pure narrative, and pure narrative is simply the logic we try to impose on an ever-changing reality.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about?

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?

grievance does not make for great art.

The word "art" does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.

The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.