Channing Tatum Quotes

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Art is more engaging that propaganda.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

Tout ce qu'on invente est vrai, soi-en sure. La poesie est une chose aussi precise que la geometrie.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Draw what you see.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

Going from the written, flat word to the three-dimensional object, that was one of the more enriching things that I've done.

Art is all in the details.

Art is truth.

I used to sculpt a bit as a kid.

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.

Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

A sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and the shape of things, and it's not just Ihe shape of any one thing, but the shape of any thing and everything.

Sex and art are the same thing.

A poem is no place for an idea.