Jiddu Krishnamurti Quotes

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

The creative part, with the writing of it and the vision, and finding the voice of a show and the characters, is much harder to teach somebody. It's like music. You can either play it or you can't. If you can't play music and you really struggle and work hard, you can learn, but you have to have some inner gift to take it to the next level.

You're only kidding yourself if you put creativity before craft.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

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

I had a natural feeling for sculpture, and the nudes are my sculpture.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Surgeons are not technicians; they're not mechanics. They're artists. I see patterns where not many other people see patterns. ...I think that's what made me a good surgeon, and now, that's what's making me a good writer.

An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.

I'm not much of an art guy but I really do love Shelby and Sandy's work - they look like they're made on a computer but they're hand-painted.

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.

Most people think that I'm so technical that I don't have a feel aspect or a rhythm aspect of it, but that's just the opposite. I need to get into my momentum and my rhythm in regards to being technical and analytical, and also being that artist.

Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano.

In all the arts abundance seems to be one of the surest signs of vocation.