Tom Robbins Quotes

Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.

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

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

Making art is different for everyone.

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

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

That's what art is. You don't make up stories. You live your life.

The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished.

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.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

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.

Art is a game only if you playat it, a mirror that reflects from the inside out.

You paint the way you have to in order to give. That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.

Art is both creation and recreation.

To be an artist means not to compute or count.

Artists need to express.

Artwork is not like a commercial business; there is no such thing as a schedule for art. You can't hurry art.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

Make good art.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.

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

I view art as an inspirational tool.

I can concentrate on my art.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.