Kate Chopin Quotes

Art is something you can't teach, but you can inspire it.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I love artists. I find them fascinating. To me, there really is a genuine magic in what they do.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I'm an artist at heart.

When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Artists are great. They jump in.

The boyhood dream of becoming a painter stays important to me.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.

I have such deep appreciation for artists who have the ability to create something from within, something completely unique and original to each piece of work.

I don't think you could write fiction or create art unless you are sort of a positive person.

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.

At moments we are all artists.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.