Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.

Art doesn't interest me. Only artists interest me.

Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I always wanted to play other artists. If I can't play an instrument, then I want to play a character that can. There is an artist behind everything, and I think that's beautiful.

Use creativity and storytelling as your main muscle instead of smartness.

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

There's nothing more special than intellect and labour that makes painting work. There's no magic there; it's information, and it's work.

This may sound corny, but I've always liked to make things that were beautiful.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Anything is an art if you do it at the level of an art.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

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

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

Art is not in some far-off place. A work of art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Even the worst book can give us something to think about.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.