Quotes about Art Making

Let go of your past. Start making history! Votes: 3

Quit counting time and start making time count Votes: 3

I didn't start making music in order to be famous. Votes: 3

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money. Votes: 3

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. Votes: 3

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you. Votes: 3

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour. Votes: 3

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. Votes: 3

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off. Votes: 3

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one. Votes: 3

I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, you know? Votes: 3

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices. Votes: 3

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that. Votes: 3

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write. Votes: 3

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money. Votes: 3

It's fine to live in the now. But the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. I'm going to start making them count. Votes: 3

Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return. Votes: 3

I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen. Votes: 3

You've got so much confidence if you start making big putts because you know you just need to hit the greens, and you've got yourself a good opportunity for the birdies. Votes: 3

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one. Votes: 3

Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality. Votes: 3

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in! Votes: 3

You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free. Votes: 3

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure. Votes: 3

My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I'll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character's past, fears, goals and ambitions. Votes: 3

I was doing political cartoons and getting angry to the point where I felt I was going to have to start making and throwing bombs. I thought I was probably a better cartoonist than a bomb maker. Votes: 3

But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward. Votes: 3

I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more. Votes: 3

We never sit down before we start making a record and talk about this new sonic palette that we are going to try to explore. We always let the record kind of reveal itself to us over time. Votes: 3

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions. Votes: 3

There comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very different place. And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health, happiness, wisdom and love, it's the right choice. Votes: 3

I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical nature to things, so you don't want to start making generalizations about how bad things have become in comparison to the old days. Votes: 3

We all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday. Votes: 3

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture. Votes: 3

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it has become a lazy profession in regard to its relationship to the artists and the vigorous state of art making. Votes: 3

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that. Votes: 3

The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just start making some small lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of the lift. The small things you can change all add up. Votes: 3

I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns. Votes: 3

Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff. Votes: 3

On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it. Votes: 3

There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium. Votes: 3

Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist. Votes: 3

We can ...start making our way back to the Father. We should do so with as much haste and humility as we can summon. Along the way we can count our many blessings and we can applaud the accomplishments of others. Best of all we can serve others. Votes: 3

When you do a lot of interviews, you find yourself telling the same stories over and over. After you do it for a whole day, you say, 'Christ, I've said this five times today.' It gets fun when you get so bored you start making it all up. Votes: 3

I modeled a little bit in Georgia growing up. I did catalogs and different things, but then when I came to L.A., I became a professional model. It sounds kind of crazy, but in L.A. was when I was able to start making a living from modeling. Votes: 3

Internet marketing entrepreneurs have truly opened my eyes to just how important a quick turnaround time can be. Often times, an interview they conduct with me today is online by the next morning. The interviewee is then able to start making money less than 24 hours after the initial interview. Votes: 3

Once people start making comparisons to a player of the past, they want you to be that player. I try to go out there and create my own image, my own style, my own type of game. Right now I can't even think of one guy I've been compared to. Votes: 3

Some people are just really goofy kind of guitar acts, and they go out and do these colleges and start making a fortune pretty early on. And other people - I know guys who are great comics, who've done the Letterman show many times, who still barely pay their bills. Votes: 3

Making art is different for everyone. Votes: 2

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi. Votes: 2

What I'm good at is making art. Votes: 2

Education is the art of making man ethical. Votes: 2

Love-making is an art which must be studied. Votes: 2

The goal of art-making in general is communication. Votes: 2

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything. Votes: 2

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Votes: 2

I suspect you've noticed that making art can be lonely. Votes: 2

I don't like watching people work if they're making art. Votes: 2

I never thought about doing anything other than making art. Votes: 2

I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art! Votes: 2

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art. Votes: 2

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Votes: 2

I always wanted to be a stay-at-home dad making art, making movies. Votes: 2

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Votes: 2

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. Votes: 2

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art. Votes: 2

Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better. Votes: 2

Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art. Votes: 2

Don't think about making art... Votes: 0

Making art is a journey. Votes: 0

Making reality real is art's responsibility. Votes: 0

Making art is an act of faith. Votes: 0

I'm not making art, I'm making sushi Votes: 0

Logic is the art of making truth prevail. Votes: 0

Real success is making art your whole life. Votes: 0

Politics is the art of making civilization work. Votes: 0

Making art in America is about saving one's soul. Votes: 0

The noblest art is that of making others happy Votes: 0

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry. Votes: 0

Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold. Votes: 0

Engineering is the art or science of making practical. Votes: 0

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant Votes: 0

Making art is like humour - very moment dependent. Votes: 0

The art of making art, is putting it together.... Votes: 0

I spent my life making fashion an art form. Votes: 0

Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable. Votes: 0

Art consists in making others feel what we feel. Votes: 0

What matters in art is not thinking but making. Votes: 0

The making of art is no different than prayer. Votes: 0

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it. Votes: 0

Economy is the art of making the most of life. Votes: 0

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art. Votes: 0

Making art is a rite of initiation. People change their souls. Votes: 0

I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself. Votes: 0

If you're making art, you are not separate from your brand. Votes: 0

I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. Votes: 0

In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making. Votes: 0

Making good wine is a skill; making fine wine is an art. Votes: 0

Simply making decisions, one after another, can be a form of art Votes: 0

The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun! Votes: 0

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt Votes: 0

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally ... Votes: 0

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself. Votes: 0

You have to experiment with different mediums and things around you [making art]. Votes: 0

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible. Votes: 0

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself Votes: 0

Making art is an act of courage. Do you know who said that? Votes: 0

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom. Votes: 0

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. Votes: 0

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. Votes: 0

Making art is about accepting what's going on around you and turning it into Votes: 0

The real function of art is to change mental patterns ... making new thought possible. Votes: 0

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. Votes: 0

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. Votes: 0

Making art is nothing but risk, always. If it's not risk, it's no good. Votes: 0

Art is making something better without knowing what better is until you make it. Votes: 0

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes. Votes: 0

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die. Votes: 0

As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. Votes: 0

In my eyes, making art is very often about something that you don't know. Votes: 0

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought. Votes: 0

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual. Votes: 0

There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. Votes: 0

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. Votes: 0

Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable Votes: 0

Design is the art of planning, and it is the art of making things possible. Votes: 0

Art is often confused with the skill of drawing. It is the skill of making. Votes: 0

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art. Votes: 0

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. Votes: 0

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea. Votes: 0

Making art is like giving a gift: evidence of your spirit and that you are here. Votes: 0

I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money. Votes: 0

This is what I call participation in the world of ideas. That is what art-making is. Votes: 0

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world. Votes: 0

The art of achievement is the art of making life - your life - a masterpiece. Votes: 0

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy. Votes: 0

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished. Votes: 0

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words. Votes: 0

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. Votes: 0

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. Votes: 0

You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art. Votes: 0

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting. Votes: 0

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, Votes: 0

During the '70s I was interested in words and meaning as a way of making art. Votes: 0

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something. Votes: 0

Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible. Votes: 0

The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings. Votes: 0

Art is about trying to find the good in people, and making the world a more compassionate place. Votes: 0

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. Votes: 0

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Votes: 0

The word 'art' interests me very much. If it comes from Sanskrit, as I've heard, it signifies 'making. Votes: 0

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art Votes: 0

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art. Votes: 0

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art. Votes: 0

The making of one's life into art is, after all, the first duty and privilege of every man. Votes: 0

I was not interested in irony; I wanted to emphasize the primacy of the idea in making art. Votes: 0

All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient. Votes: 0

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having. Votes: 0

The art of good decision making is looking forward to and celebrating the tradeoffs, not pretending they don't exist. Votes: 0

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. Votes: 0

Art is the ideal medium for making contact with the transcendental, or at least for getting close to it. Votes: 0

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. Votes: 0

The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them. Votes: 0

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own. Votes: 0

Completing a piece of art and using all of the elements of making a film, was satisfying, for sure. Votes: 0

when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most. Votes: 0

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art. Votes: 0

But at the end of the day, you can't major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default. Votes: 0

I do not think making art alone makes it any better than making it with a team of people. Votes: 0

Being a graduate student is no fun and is hard, but I'm sticking with it. I love making art. Votes: 0

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling. Votes: 0

Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art. Votes: 0

The prime motivation in making almost any film is success, because film is the art form of the 20th century. Votes: 0

John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad. Votes: 0

People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. Votes: 0

It's just way more fun making art, growing, grinding for a fan base, and traveling the world with a friend. Votes: 0

I am passionate about creating, not about procreating. My love for art is greater than my love for making love. Votes: 0

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. Votes: 0

The art of making a film and its content are far more interesting to me than the result or impact. Votes: 0

Art is the retelling of certain themes in a new light, making them accessible to the public of the moment. Votes: 0

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks. Votes: 0

Art is not to do with the practical side of making a living. It's to live a fuller human life. Votes: 0

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. Votes: 0

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. Votes: 0

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. Votes: 0

Boys who spent their weekends making banana nut muffins did not, as a rule, excel in the art of hand-to-hand combat. Votes: 0

Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making. Votes: 0

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity. Votes: 0

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. Votes: 0

When you're so drawn to art, to making pictures and looking at art, it's really all you want to think about. Votes: 0

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. Votes: 0

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. Votes: 0

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring. Votes: 0

You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art. Votes: 0

Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes. Votes: 0

ART is domination. It's making people think that for that precise moment in time there is only one way, one voice. Yours. Votes: 0

A lot of student films in art shows are samey. It's a look at the life of someone making these boring films. Votes: 0

It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art, Votes: 0

There is too much talk of cooking being an art or a science "“ we are only making ourselves something to eat. Votes: 0

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. Votes: 0

I'm making some of the greatest art being made now. It'll take the art world ten years to get around to it. Votes: 0

Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80 Votes: 0

I think making a movie is like drawing or creating an art piece. The artwork reflects part of your personality, but not all. Votes: 0

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too. Votes: 0

Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary. Votes: 0

Ephemeral work made outside, for and about a day, lies at the core of my art and its making must be kept private. Votes: 0

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art." Votes: 0

I don't know whether what I do is art. But making things out in the world and having as many conversations as possible. Votes: 0

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art. Votes: 0

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me. Votes: 0

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate. Votes: 0

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art. Votes: 0

What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? Votes: 0

I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning. Votes: 0

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. Votes: 0

The making of art is a profoundly social activity, even if it’s one-on-one with some sort of ideal reader who doesn’t exist. Votes: 0

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words. Votes: 0

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. Votes: 0

The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth. Votes: 0

There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art. Votes: 0

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses. Votes: 0

The real art is in the street, is making the artwork, and for that you have to involve people. The action is actually the artwork. Votes: 0

Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck. Votes: 0

One of the main purpose of art has ever been that of making its indispensable contribution to the growth of entropy of the universal stupidity. Votes: 0

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately. Votes: 0

I think having a dispassionate eye is a good way of making art. When you don't know the structures of a place, you are unencumbered. Votes: 0

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste. Votes: 0

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. Votes: 0

Family is the best. I can honestly say, it's a gift that is beyond making art. I didn't know that when I got into it. Votes: 0

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice. Votes: 0

Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything. Votes: 0

Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. Votes: 0

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. Votes: 0

We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character. Votes: 0

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together. Votes: 0

Making art was really about the problem of the soul, of losing it. It was a technique for inhabiting the world. For not dissolving into it. Votes: 0

I have dedicated a significant portion of my time and artistry to making art that addresses various forms of oppression, including white supremacy, misogyny, and biphobia. Votes: 0

I think that the first part of the art is making the art, but when art really becomes art is when it belongs to somebody else. Votes: 0

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others. Votes: 0

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. Votes: 0

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. Votes: 0

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. Votes: 0

I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't yet exist. Votes: 0

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying. Votes: 0

After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art. Votes: 0

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. Votes: 0

I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves. Votes: 0

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art. Votes: 0

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun. Votes: 0

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers. Votes: 0

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. Votes: 0

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make. Votes: 0

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make. Votes: 0

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. Votes: 0

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry. Votes: 0

Painting is like breathing to me. It's what I do all the time. Every day I make art, whether it is painting, writing or making a movie. Votes: 0

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion. Votes: 0

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film. Votes: 0

To extend the depth of what has been called 'art' into photography requires... making available to the spectator the amazing transformations the subject undergoes to become the photograph. Votes: 0

The idea of making [conceptual] art was not a good way to approach things... Instead I saw myself as trying to make something that my relatives could understand. Votes: 0

For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home. Votes: 0

Collaboration is necessary for making great art. Everybody has a perspective on what they think or feel the material should ultimately look like when it hits the screen. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks. Votes: 0

Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks Votes: 0

If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos. Votes: 0

Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them. Votes: 0

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never. Votes: 0

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Votes: 0

The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living. Votes: 0

I feel like there's a space of personal freedom for me where my art-making happens. When I go to that space, I'm completely in the world of possibility. Votes: 0

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives. Votes: 0

An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make. Votes: 0

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God. Votes: 0

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white. Votes: 0

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world. Votes: 0

There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad. Votes: 0

Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. Votes: 0

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that. Votes: 0

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art. Votes: 0

I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy. Votes: 0

Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. Votes: 0

I'd rather do anything than make commercial art. I didn't go to school for art. Making art has certain advantages for me but they would never be in commercial direction. Votes: 0

I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed. . . . It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume. Votes: 0

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film. Votes: 0

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful. Votes: 0

Diplomacy: the art of jumping into trouble without making a splash. Votes: 0