Top 100 Art Process Quotes
#1. About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.
Max Walker
#2. Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
Frank Ocean
#3. All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
Jane Alexander
#4. The not-knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.
Donald Barthelme
#5. True creativity comes from enjoying ?the? moments, which then fulfill themselves, and a part of the creative process is indeed the art of relaxation, the letting go, for that triggers magical activity ...
Seth
#6. Art is the overflow of emotion into action.
Brian Raif
#7. Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.
Craig Brown
#8. The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.
Buffy Sainte-Marie
#9. When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges
#10. I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction.
Stephen King
#11. We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.
Marvin Minsky
#12. No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.
Horace
#13. We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.
John Paul Caponigro
#15. What happens when you combine your passion, strength and value? This is the process of creating true art.
J.R. Rim
#16. Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
Josef Albers
#17. A composition - and every work of art is one - is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.
Jostein Gaarder
#18. Fairly early in my career, I had a passion for wine just as a consumer, and I started to learn about the whole process, starting with a piece of raw ground, and ending up with a work of art in a bottle.
Drew Bledsoe
#19. My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.
Jaeda DeWalt
#20. It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
Henry James
#21. You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#22. The discovery in art is often gradual, a process of minor discoveries riddled with uncertainties and the potential for making that which is discovered vanish before your eyes, like a mirage.
Geoff Dyer
#23. Where art is concerned, it is the process of creating - exploring, discovering, and experimenting
that has the greatest value. Through self-expression and creativity, children's skills will develop naturally, and their ability to create will soar.
MaryAnn F. Kohl
#24. The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
Marcel Duchamp
#25. we may say that History develops, Art stands still
E. M. Forster
#26. Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action.
Kristine Stiles
#27. Art imitates nature not in its effects as such, but in its causes, in its 'manner,' in its process, which are nothing but a participation in and a derivation of actual objects, of the Art of God himself.
Paul Claudel
#28. Truth to life, at the start, to be sure; yet once the process gets under way, truth to art is the greater allegiance
Julian Barnes
#29. She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#30. Sannyas is the art of flying ... the art that stops the process of gravitation and starts the process of grace. All that is needed is a state of let-go. All that is needed is a readiness to be possessed by the upward dimension, a readiness to open to the sky.
Rajneesh
#31. The process of art-making is full of happy accidents - what fun!
Max Elliott Slade
#32. It would be mistaken to suppose that any of the best photography is come at by intellection; it is like all art, essentially the result of an intuitive process, drawing on all that the artist is rather than on anything he thinks, far less theorizes about.
Helen Levitt
#33. Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.
Marc Jacobs
#34. When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
Umberto Eco
#35. Writing, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#36. Language is evidently one of the principle instruments or helps of thought; and any imperfection in the instrument, or in the mode of employing it, is confessedly liable, still more than in almost any other art, to confuse and impede the process, and destroy all ground of confidence in the result.
John Stuart Mill
#37. In art school, they teach you to struggle through the process: If you have your image down, you've painted it, and it's not looking the way you wanted it to, you can do wet on wet - you just keep moving the image around.
Laura Owens
#38. Rather than feeling that every moment you've got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.
Stuart Dybek
#39. Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.
John Henry Holland
#40. 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.
LeRoy Neiman
#41. A Classical style ... is the syllogism of art, the only legitimate process from one world to another. Classicism is not the manner of any fixed age or of any fixed country; it is a constant state of the artistic mind. It is a temper of security and satisfaction and patience.
James Joyce
#42. Art is a thing where, the least likely thing that you think is going to be art, is precisely the thing that is going to be art. And I would even hold that true to a reality television show ... maybe the entire overarching process of the show actually exists as an artistic structure.
Richard Phillips
#43. If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.
Ridley Scott
#44. Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
Don Roff
#45. By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#46. I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...
John Geddes
#47. You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#48. I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Henry James
#49. Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
#50. One of the core reasons for creating 'Station to Station' was to provide a space for exploration and cultural friction between different mediums. It should be natural for mediums like music, film and art to cross over, and we wanted to empower that process.
Doug Aitken
#51. This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.
Katherine Paterson
#52. The process must be concealed from - non-existent for - the photographer, who by definition need think of the art in the taking and not in the making photographs ... In short, all that should be necessary to get a good picture is to take a good picture.
Edwin Land
#53. Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
John Waters
#54. I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.
Michelle Phan
#56. When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift.
Justina Chen
#57. A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
#58. It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
Ted Dekker
#59. Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included ... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
Joseph Beuys
#60. Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#61. I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
Marcel Duchamp
#62. ... Bond selection is primarily a negative art. It is a process of exclusion and rejection, rather than of search and acceptance.
Benjamin Graham
#63. Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.
Cory Trepanier
#64. Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant.
Robert A. Heinlein
#65. One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.
Andy Goldsworthy
#66. The art form is to become one with the hurdle, to make it your friend, and I embraced that process.
Renaldo Nehemiah
#67. Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process.
Franz Grillparzer
#68. All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.
Joseph Plaskett
#69. My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
#70. The world really changed after 9/11, not just in the tragic way, but in every way. So it took me a couple of years to even understand how my art form I could process any of this. When the world changed, eliciting laughter with subjects that were funny to me before 9/11 just didnt seem good enough.
Albert Brooks
#71. You must study the Masters but guard the original style that beats within your soul and put to sword those who would try to steal it.
El Greco
#72. I do not see the process of blogging as a separate thing from creating art. This is in part why I do not like to be known for being a 'blogger,' as this is just one form of output for creative ideas.
Keri Smith
#73. The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now.
Robert Anton Wilson
#74. All movies are pure process. A commercial movie isn't less process than an art movie. You can't make your decisions about a film on the basis of, 'Is it important enough? Is it serious enough?' It's either alive or it's not for me. If it's alive, I want to do it.
Mike Nichols
#75. I've found that busting your ass on a daily basis to make your art good, clear, and meaningful creates the most luck.
Don Roff
#76. An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.
Irving Stone
#77. When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.
Joni Mitchell
#78. Abstract design is all right - for wallpaper or linoleum. But art is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.
Robert A. Heinlein
#79. The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.
Stephanie Lennox
#80. Designing a winning strategy is the art of asking questions, experimenting and then constantly renewing the thinking process by questioning the answers. No matter how good today's strategy is, you must always keep reinventing it.
Constantinos C. Markides
#81. Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
Aldous Huxley
#82. Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#83. In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.
Ben Lerner
#84. Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
Bill Viola
#85. My vision is to not only define food and cooking as an art, but to go back to the roots of cooking and showcase the process through a more simplistic, ethereal approach as an expression of life and living.
Lorena Garcia
#86. The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
Hans Hofmann
#87. We are the ORIGIN of our art, its homeland. Viewed this way, ORIGINALITY is the process of remaining true to ourselves.
Julia Cameron
#88. Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves.
Antony Gormley
#89. Art is in the process of redefining our relationships to each other ... The creative minds are bubbling, bubbling, and I know the soup that's coming up next time is going to feed a lot more of us.
Ruby Dee
#90. The work of art is above all a process of creation.
Paul Klee
#91. In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#92. There are many aspects to yourself. Which ones we reveal to ourselves is entirely up to us. To reveal this is a process of self-revelation.
Art Hochberg
#93. Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.
Kathe Kollwitz
#94. Learning styles Visual - learn best by seeing Auditory - learn best by hearing Tactile - learn best by doing Oral - learn best by saying Social - learn best in groups Logical - learn best in linear process Imaginative - learn best through art, story, and image
John Ortberg
#95. All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution ...
Anais Nin
#96. Somewhere in my head, a private conviction exists that 'Search is the Process' and 'Discovery the Art Form.
Abe Ajay
#97. What gets me excited by the process of making art is how unrelated elements get fused, which is a formal process. The content is the easy part. Putting it together in a way that's cohesive is the challenge.
Jordan Wolfson
#98. Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.
Jean M. Auel
#99. Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.
John Logan
#100. When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.
Noma Bar
