Top 100 Your Art Quotes
#1. Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
#2. If you believe in your art, and you love what you do, that energy will go out, and people will respond.
Ray Conniff
#4. Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
Seth Godin
#5. You are your art
Your are your song
You are your craft.
You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream;
Priscilla Koranteng
#6. What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?
Patti Digh
#7. You can't control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.
Ann Patchett
#8. But ah, to fish with a worm, and then not catch your fish! To fail with a fly is no disgrace: your art may have been impeccable, your patience faultless to the end. But the philosophy of worm-fishing is that of results, of having something tangible in your basket when the day's work is done.
Bliss Perry
#9. Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.
Esperanza Spalding
#10. Well, I mean, taking time for your art is taking time for yourself, isn't it?
Lana Del Rey
#11. Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.
Marvin Hagler
#12. I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
Queen Latifah
#13. If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. Express yourself through your art - whether it's your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.
Kat Von D.
#15. Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
Bubba Sparxxx
#17. Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
Robert Henri
#18. Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art.
Kay WalkingStick
#19. At the end of the day, filmmaking is a sheer act of creative will. You have to be prepared to stick with your art no matter what comes your way.
Nicholas Ozeki
#20. I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.
Carey Mulligan
#21. Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#22. And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.
Nipsey Hussle
#23. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
#24. I think there is something so compelling about the truth that whether you're a lawyer or judge or an actor, when you get at that truth, it connects with people on a particular level that I think makes your art more viable.
Sarah Jones
#25. You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.
Alfredo Kraus
#26. I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.
Cheryl Rainfield
#27. If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
Friedrich Schiller
#28. If you want to work on your art, work on your life.
Anton Chekhov
#29. Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
Oprah Winfrey
#30. If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.
Danger Mouse
#31. You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
Octavia Spencer
#32. In peace, continue your art; in war, continue your art; in freedom, continue your art; in captivity, continue your art!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#34. What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?
Kevin Emerson
#35. But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
Bill Crawford
#36. The thing about being an artist," Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, "is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your art. But this usually says more about them and their issues than it does about you and your art. Trust me.
Leila Sales
#38. If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.
Miles Davis
#39. As long as you're honest and authentic to yourself and your experience, your art can't be 'shit'.
Myself
#40. If you're a new artist, practice your art and share it. Set up shop somewhere, whether it's a street corner or a coffee shop. I got my start in a coffee shop that didn't even have live music. I wanted to play in coffee shops that did have live music, but I didn't have an audience.
Jason Mraz
#41. The only person who is hurt by jealousy is you ... Eliminate that word from your life ... it may not make you unsuccessful selling your art, but it will destroy your happiness.
Jack White
#42. Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#43. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.
Seth
#44. Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
Ansel Adams
#45. I think, for some artists, the fear of taking on a political identity stems from not wanting to be pigeonholed as political actor or a political musician. It becomes this thing where somehow your art can no longer exist on its own and be multifaceted.
Carrie Brownstein
#46. An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.
Glenn Cunningham
#47. When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer.
Sameer Khan
#48. Make your skin as thick as you are able to, for your career. Keep it as thin as you can tolerate, for your art.
Robin Black
#49. You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
Fefe Dobson
#50. Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.
Jonathan Demme
#51. The more you love your art/ calling/ enterprise, the more important its accomplishment to the evolution of your soul, the more you will fear it and the more Resistance you will experience facing it.
Steven Pressfield
#52. The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art.
Stephen Stills
#53. Be always adventurous in the creating and sharing of your art in any form. Take risks and do not settle for playing safe. If you hesitate you are restraining your creativity. Some will appreciate your creative work and others will not. Just be free in expressing the creative you!
Alison Blackmore
#54. Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.
Joe Murray
#55. ...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.
Michael Powell
#56. You can't control whether or not you have talent. You can't control whether or not your work will be recognized or valued. But what you can control is how much work you put your art-both in terms of creating it and in terms of getting it out there-and that is where I try to focus my energy.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
#58. No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.
Michel De Montaigne
#59. You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.
Lisa Yuskavage
#60. Your art is so abstract that I can only see it through my mind's eye and touch it through my heart.
Debasish Mridha
#61. To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.
Josh Holloway
#62. You are only an actor if you absolutely love it and can not do anything else. Starving for your art is great in your 20s, but it's not so great at 35. It has to be absolute love. You can't worry about being a movie star or anything else. Just love. That's it.
James Avery
#63. I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
Paddy Considine
#64. I've always wanted my lyrics to say something meaningful and, you know, you always want to tell a message with your art. So yes, as I continue to write music, I will write about things that are real and things that I feel aren't written about a lot.
Hayley Kiyoko
#65. Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.
Kay WalkingStick
#66. I think great writers should write great shows, and I have trouble with, like, what you are in life shouldn't automatically make you what you do in your art. It doesn't necessarily translate.
Jenji Kohan
#67. Your art ... " I gaped at the field of white. "There was a lovely portrait of me - right there."
I get offended whenever art is damaged, especially if that art features me.
Rick Riordan
#68. The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would be about. But that had more to do with the kind of general understanding of what the hell you're doing, you know.
Robert Barry
#69. You get to keep making art as long as you are willing to make the choices that let you make your art.
Seth Godin
#70. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.
Brent Weeks
#71. You do in your art what you cannot do in your life.
Josh Schwartz
#72. Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.
Nick Bantock
#73. One wants to think that - and this is really a stupid thought - that through your art or whatever you do as an actor you can actually affect someone else's lives and thoughts or whatever.
Demian Bichir
#74. You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
Mike Tyson
#75. Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.
Brian Michael Bendis
#76. And do not forget that the blood of rebellion flows through your veins, that around your soul meanders the river of perfection; above all stay devoted to your art - even if it is only the art of living! - above all remain loyal to it.
Philippe Petit
#77. I was a coat checker, a dishwasher, a waitress, and those were some of the happiest times of my life because I still got to do my writing. You're lucky when you can work and then do your art.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#78. What no one tells you about having children is that it isn't tbe physical demand thry make in your life that affects your art, it's the emotional space they fill, crowding out your art. So even when you have the time to work, you're still mentally occupied.
Whitney Otto
#80. Music is the biggest tool of revolution - the best way to reach out to the youth and involve them. If you can't contribute to the world with your art, I don't see the meaning of life.
Kailash Kher
#81. The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.
Robert Genn
#82. If you follow nature you will not be able to vanquish the tragic in any real degree in your art ... We must free ourselves from our attachment to the external, for only then do we transcend the tragic, and are enabled consciously to contemplate the repose which is within all things.
Piet Mondrian
#83. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#84. If you have something you do that's unique, you just end up in situations. Your art can take you to places without you working too hard to force something to happen.
Reggie Watts
#86. When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don't decide the title, you don't decide the size, the order of the photographs ... so it's completely out of control!
Luis Gonzalez
#87. You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do. You want to be focused on it.
Steve Martin
#88. Above all, the listener should be able to understand the poem or the song, not be forced to unravel a complicated, self-indulgent puzzle. Offer your art up to the whole world, not just an elite few.
Lucinda Williams
#89. I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?
Jami Attenberg
#91. One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.
Harley King
#93. Building a professional relationship on respect as opposed to affection is a very good idea. Running your art projects the way you'd run a dry-cleaning business is also a really good idea. You shouldn't go into work like you're going on a date, like you're hanging out with friends.
Penn Jillette
#94. Think of your day as a blank canvas, and everything you say, your art upon it. Then join your loved ones and friends, and create lasting beauty together, worthy of your inner Rembrandt.
Tom Althouse
#95. Neglect your art for one day and it will neglect you for two!
Ed Blackwell
#96. The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art ... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.
Derek R. Audette
#97. Lucentio: I read that I profess, the Art of Love.
Bianca: And may you prove, sir, master of your art!
Lucentio: While you, sweet dear, prove mistress of my heart!
William Shakespeare
#98. An artist strives to frame his ideals in an image; to challenge his audience and to make his vision immortal. But the parasites say 'no, your art must serve the cause ... your ideals endanger the people!'
Andrew Ryan
#99. The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
T Bone Burnett
#100. There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself.
Yoko Ono
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