The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
The best artists are gone now.
The best artists know what to leave out.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.
The best artists transcend nationality and identity.
I always find the mirror in the dressing room is where the best artists are.
The best artists are people who don't consider themselves artists, and the people who do are usually the most pretentious and annoying. They've got their priorities wrong. They're just doing it to be artists rather than because they want to do it.
I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
Both of my parents were cartoonists - they met in art school - so I was always drawing and I was the best artist in my class and all that stuff.
The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.
When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.
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