Doing Art Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Doing Art

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Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing. — Rajneesh

There's no wrong way of doing art. It's an expression of the individual. — Swizz Beatz

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing. — Erykah Badu

The problem with doing physically ambitious art is that to view it, you still have to be in your physical body. — Molly Crabapple

I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give. — LL Cool J

Programming is the art of doing one thing at a time — Michael C. Feathers

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)
— Jennifer Birkett

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting. — Art Alexakis

Feeling sorry for myself was an art. I think a part of me liked doing that. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it. — Yayoi Kusama

Had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work. — Seth Godin

Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior. — Steven Pressfield

Art doesn't have to do anything. It just has to be there for the fierce pleasure we take in doing it. — Raymond Carver

Avoid methodology. If what you're doing is about technique, that's not art. — Kay WalkingStick

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. — Bruce Nauman

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate. — Christopher Bram

It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once. — Umberto Eco

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art. — Bill Russell

I feel lost not doing art, unsatisfied, anxious, bored. Everything else in comparison seems not terribly important. — Nancy Crow

Mum and Dad always wanted me to do whatever I was happy doing. I nearly went to art college at 16, but decided to do a BTEC in performing arts. — Stephen Graham

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it. — Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing. — Art Buchwald

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else — Seth Godin

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler. — Fred Tomaselli

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself. — Laurance Rockefeller

I have no idea where I'm going but here's the real question: What am I doing here in the first place? — Art Buchwald

Why do we think God is watching us? Maybe God is the one doing the whole trip. — Art Hochberg

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing. — Mariel Hemingway

Childhood can be a scary experience, depending on who is doing the caring and how daring the caring. — Art Hochberg

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way. — Eli Broad

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that. — Kesha

Sex is like art: if you know what you're doing, you don't know what you're doing. — Hanif Kureishi

When I start doing a body of work I feel vulnerable, fearful. If I stopped trusting the process, I would stop doing art. — Wanda Koop

We were doing performance art as far back as 1965, just not calling it that. — Joseph Jarman

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The real art of governing consists, so far as possible, in doing nothing. — Laozi

If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job. — Thomas Hoving

It is necessary that ... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds ... — Arthur Lismer

The pain is bad magicians ripping off good ones, doing magic badly, and making a mockery of the art. — Ricky Jay

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum. — Tania Bruguera

It was hard to get jobs on farms doing wool-classing, but I got them. They had to learn to like a female wool-classer. — Theresa Sjoquist

I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework. — Bil Keane

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff. — Aaron Yoo

I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to go to a typewriter and write poetry. — Patti Smith

At best doing art you feel like you're led by something that doesn't involve you. — Doseone

I'm in this whole flow of doing certain art pieces without commerce. — Jada Pinkett Smith

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art — William Blake

If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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. — Dale Peck

For me, acting is about the art of it and it's about being on a film set and doing your thing, painting a blank canvas. — Shailene Woodley

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination. — Tim Robbins

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong. — Azealia Banks

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul. — Barbara Mason

My parents never prevented me from doing anything, but they didn't have the knowledge of the arts that Mrs. Ranger had. — Paul Smith

I enjoyed art in school. I've always done little drawings and stuff like that. I don't really know what I'm doing with the painting, but I experiment. — Alex Lifeson

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic. — Charles Eames

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. — David Hilbert

Art is all about doing what you shouldn't. — Nobuyoshi Araki

Art is right reason in the doing of work. — Thomas Aquinas

I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. — Shia Labeouf

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art. — Seth Godin

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that. — Urs Fischer

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. — Isaac Asimov

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing. — Francis Ford Coppola

Remember ... you are expressing the technique, not doing the technique. — Bruce Lee

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing. — Philip Larkin

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life. — Ellen Langer

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art. — Javier Bardem

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental. — Sufjan Stevens

Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job. — Antony Gormley

Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly. — Eric Drooker

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound — Duke Of Wellington

Henry James proposed asking of art three modest and appropriate questions: What is the artist trying to do? Does he do it? Was it worth doing? — Robert Adams

Very private people have mastered the art of telling you little about themselves but doing it in such a way you think you know a lot. — Anonymous

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen. — Andrew Wyeth

Limit your day to what you feel comfortable with doing - put the rest on the shelf - for further consideration down the line. — Art Hochberg

I'm thinking to myself, I just love doing the art, it takes me a morning to do. — Eddie Campbell

People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and try, and I just don't. — Douglas Coupland

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way. — Winslow Homer

Art is doing something you really believe in. — Ray Toro

Art is the act of doing work that matters while dancing with the voice in your head that screams for you to stop. — Seth Godin

Experiment is actually doing the art. That's the experiment and then you get to experience the experiment. — Robert Glasper

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing ... — Hiroko Sakai

Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business. — Jeffrey Deitch

Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. — Gianni Versace

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best
that is inspiration. — Robert Bresson

And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet. — Neil Gaiman

Doing a life study while drunk and in the process of being seduced is never a formula for quality art. — Dan Simmons

I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format. — Sean Maguire

There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s. — Marina Abramovic

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. — Nile Rodgers

Whatever one considers art to be, there is in many people a hunger to express themselves creatively and to feel authentic in doing that. — Sean Penn

There is no "right" way to make art. The only wrong is in not trying, not doing. — Anonymous

The most wonderful time to be in the art world was in the sixties, because it wasn't a business - there was no business of doing art. — Arne Glimcher

Listen, you're not doing God any favors by praying. You're doing yourself a favor. — Art Hochberg

If I didn't think what I was doing had something to do with enlarging the boundaries of art, I wouldn't go on doing it. — Claes Oldenburg

I believe that he knew more what he was doing. I might be absolutely wrong about this, but that was my impression. — Gerhard Richter

Never mind what God is doing. What are you doing? That's called interspection. — Art Hochberg