Daniel H. Pink Quotes

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

Without art there is no hope.

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?

Artists need to express.

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

I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its servant; it's not mine. I'm doing what it wants.

Modeling, for me, isn't about being beautiful but creating something interesting for people to look at and think about.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

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

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