Charles Bukowski Quotes

I think there's something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Art is anything people do with distinction.

It may be an instinct, it is with me anyway, when you're presenting something to the world, to make it as beautiful as you can.

You're creating ' it comes from the heart, the spirit, the soul. You're not manufacturing somebody else's plan, somebody else's blueprint, somebody else's idea that's not yours. So when you're creating, that's the beauty side of art, you know? It comes from within you.

The key to artistry is being able to say stuff the way other people can't.

I think fashion and artistry go hand in hand.

I love to mix everything together. It's really my way to see beauty.

I just like to see and put out what I think is beautiful. And put my swag on it, and my style, and how I feel.

As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

It's clever, but is it Art?

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your own sanity. You have to start with a conceit.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

I always knew that I wanted to be creative, that I wanted to create something.

Somebody informed me recently that the key to every art, from writing to gardening to sculpture, is creativity. I beg to differ.

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a picture of a tree and agree that the tree is beautiful and move on with our lives. I wouldn't even need to show up.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.