Best 22487 quotes in «art quotes» category

Do not press an enemy at bay.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

Do not set out to make Mexican art, or American, Chinese, or Russian art. Think in terms of universality.

Dont avoid extremes, and dont choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Don't be rushed, be sure.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

Don't be afraid to put anything on paper because the best art has some element of danger to it and if you hold back then people will kind of be able to tell that you're trying to be something you're not.

Don't be proud of what you know, and don't be self-confident if you are learned. Be open to advice from the unlearned as well as from the learned. Art knows no limit, and the artists will never achieve perfection.

Don't flail against the world, use it. Flexibility is the operative principle in the art of war.

Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.

Don't know which one is worse, doing your own thing or just being cool.

Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...

Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't express them. Don't analyze yourself. Give the relevant facts and let your readers make their own judgments. Stick to your story. It is not the most important subject in history but it is one about which you are uniquely qualified to speak.

Don't listen to what anyone tells you about the kind of music you make. Just make it! Be yourself, make your own music, and be totally true to your art. Because it's kind of a selfish thing to be an artist.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.

Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours.

Don't think about making art.

Don't think OF your goals, think FROM them.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a joy for ever.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

Don't try to buy art as an investment. Buy something you really love because you're going to have to look at it again tomorrow. And an investment can go up or down. Buy something you really adore, you really like, and you want to live with. And if you decide some years later you don't want to live with it anymore, sell it. Get out.

Don't you know that every perfect life would be the end of art?

Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a reader and, later on, as a storyteller.

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

Doth sickness fill my heart with fear, 'Tis sweet to know that Thou art near; Am I with dread of justice tried, 'Tis sweet to know that Christ hath died.

Doubt is only removed by action. If you're not working then that's where doubt comes in.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Do you ever wonder if what you look at is the same thing everyone else is seeing?' He went even stiller at her side. 'Sometimes I'm sure it isn't the same...but that's not so bad is it? Seeing the world in a different way?' Creative vision creates art' he motioned around the gallery 'that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's a beautiful thing.

Do what you love. Go to a good art school and study with the best teachers. Move to New York and read Ask Mark Kostabi.

Do you know what good art is? It is saying "ta" to God.

Do you know how to read?" "No. It is one of the black arts." He nodded. "But a useful one," he said.

Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.

Do you know that drawing with words is also an art... ?

Do you think you can love too much? Or experience too much beauty, at the cost of too much pain? Do you think when art is defined by expressing so much beauty and so much pain, just to be able to cope with both - and bring other people something creatively beautiful at the cost of that pain - that we can draw a line of 'normalcy'? It's important to think about.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

Drawing is the basis of art. A bad painter cannot draw. But one who draws well can always paint.

Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.