Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

The important thing is to remember what most impressed you and to put it on canvas as fast as possible.

Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form.

The essence of a sculpture must enter on tip-toe, as light as animal footprints on snow.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Making art is different for everyone.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

I like to write about painting because I think visually. I see my writing as blocks of color before it forms itself. I think I also care about painting because I'm not musical. Painting to me is not a metaphor for writing, but something people do that can never be reduced to words.

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

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is.

The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

I'm inspired by art - in whatever form it takes. I love when I see a painting or a photograph that captures my attention.

I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.

Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.

My approach to portraiture is conceptual.

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

I think about art a lot only in two contexts. One is narrative... The other thing that I'm interested in, which is tangential, but not unrelated... All art to me is about problem solving.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

All I care about these days is painting — photography has never been more than a way into painting, a sort of instant drawing.

For all the years I'd spent talking about pictures, the truth was that I had no idea how to draw or what it felt like to do it. I would mistrust a poetry critic who couldn't produce a rhyming couplet. Could one write about art without knowing how to draw?