Clive Sinclair Quotes

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

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

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

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

You have a talent that comes from inside you, from your heart, not your fingers. What you have can’t ever go away. It’s what other people only dream about. You’re an artist.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

I started painting as a hobby when I was little. I didn't know I had any talent. I believe talent is just a pursued interest. Anybody can do what I do.

He [Bernardo Bertolucci] has the kind of talent that breaks one's heart: where can it go, what will happen to it? In this country we encourage 'creativity' among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow 'too much.' Well, Before the Revolution is too much and that is what is great about it. Art doesn't come in measured quantities: it's got to be too much or it's not enough.

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

People should be stopped from writing poetry. There's far too much of it. And if they're any good, they'll go ahead anyways.

My son's a painter. All through school his teachers tell him he's a genius. I tell him to paint me an apple that looks like an apple before he paints me one that doesn't. Go where you can go, but start from someplace recognizable.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Normal people do not create art.

Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

We always cut our poetical theories to suit our talent.

Artists are better at finding a way to kill their time.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.