Greg Lake Quotes

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

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

Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.

Normal people do not create art.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s like being paid for dreaming.

Great art can only be created out of love.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

I'm interested in art, and I think about the process of making art. It's part of my personality, my experience of the world, so it ends up in the movies. It's where my head is.

How certain human beings are able to create works of art is a mystery, and why they should wish to do so, at a great cost to themselves usually, is another mystery. Works are not created by one's life; every life is rich in material.

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

Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.

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.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

I view art as an inspirational tool.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

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

Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.