Jack White Quotes

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

It's easier and sociabler to talk technique than it is to make art.

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.

In reality, however, an artist is a product of art

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.

I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

I tend to get very suspicious of anything that thinks it's art while it's being created.

We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

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.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art.

The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself.

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

A lot of artists are involved with fabrication. Artists today are making more objects and many of them need the participation of a dealer in order to facilitate and provide support for projects. So that has changed. But I don't know if what it means to be an artist has really changed. I hope that it hasn't.

I've come to realize that the contemporary creative culture is not generating the best possible outcome.

The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.