Nicholas Sparks Quotes

I'm an artist in my heart.

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

All men are creative but few are artists.

I'm an artist at heart.

I don't use the word 'artists' lightly.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

I dreamed of being an artist.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

There is the same difference between talent and genius that there is between a stone mason and a sculptor

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

Be the artist you were born to be.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

You may be perfect in playing the piano, and not be creative; you may play the piano most brilliantly, and not be a musician. You may be able to handle color, to put paint on canvas most cleverly, and not be a creative painter. You may create a face, an image out of a stone, because you have learned the technique, and not be a master creator. Creation comes first, not technique.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

An artist is someone with the gift to light up a dark room.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

I wouldn't be able to do the songs as long as I've been doing if I didn't feel the pulse of the world. But I can feel people and I know what they want. I feel like I know how they are, because I am the people. And I just have a gift.

I don't consider myself an artist necessarily, but craftsmen or people in the arts, their spiritualism is sort of when you're writing well or performing well or doing whatever you do well, there's an element of that that's either God-given, a talent that you're not necessarily responsible for.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.