Joseph Addison Quotes

The first hole made through a piece of stone is a revelation.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

There is probably nothing more sublime than discontent transmuted into a work of art, a scientific discovery, and so on.

Then marble, soften'd into life, grew warm.

Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.

Filmmaking is finding a piece of granite and you start to chip away and then you have the shape of a head, the shape of the arm, you can see the shape of the face and the face starts to gather character. You have to find it.

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

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

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

I feel like the job in editing is to let the movie tell you what it is. So again, it's like sculpture. You just start taking away, you add a nose here, you cut off, like, the side of the cheek over here in the crease, and you have a face. But it really reveals to you what it means to be over time, and if you have enough time.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

The art of creation lies in the gift of perceiving the particular and generalizing it, thus creating the particular again. It is therefore a powerful transforming force and a generator of creative solutions in relation to a given problem. It is the currency of human exchanges, which enables the sharing of states of the soul and conscience, and the discovery of new fields of experience.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain

To make art you need to be inspired.

The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

The artist is called a creator.

Do not copy nature. Art is an abstraction. Rather, bring your art forth by dreaming in front of her and think more of creation.

The artist does not really create; he discovers.

Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.