Irving Stone Quotes

Artists are like everybody else.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

To make art you need to be inspired.

I was constantly drawing and colouring. I had an immense love for art and anything which involved art fascinated me.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Cold exactitude is not art... The so-called consciousness of the majority of painters is only perfection applied to the art of boring. People like that, if they could, would work with the same minute attention on the back of their canvas.

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me. So let's have no talk of temperamental, self-absorbed and petulant babies. Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on. I love them all.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

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.

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'