Antoni Gaudi Quotes

Artists in various fields are always the first to discover how to enable one medium or to release the power of another.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.

I think the intuitive processes of discovery are the same, very much the same, in the arts as in the sciences.

All art is a kind of exploring. To discover and reveal is the way every artist sets about his business.

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

I find it hard to believe that the machine would go into the creative artist's hand even were that magic hand in true place. It has been too far exploited by industrialism and science at expense to art and true religion.

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

As an artist, I want to explore as much as I can.

For me, as an artist, I think you have to experiment.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

The creative process must be explored... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

When John Heartfield and I invented photomontage in my South End studio at five o'clock on a May morning in 1916, neither of us had any inkling of its great possibilities, nor of the thorny yet successful road it was to take. As so often happens in life, we had stumbled across a vein of gold without knowing it.

I think that just the nature of art education in schools, it's about packs, you know? Like, we're young wolves running together, creating a consensus. And consensus is antithetical to the art process.

For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.

It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.