144 Quotes About Artistry

Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.

We are all born artists. The nature generally doesn’t discriminate among newborns with respect to art. Yet most of us try very hard as we grow, without knowing, to stop being artists.

The art wouldn’t complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination.

I paint the stuff I see when my eyes are closed

He locked himself up in his sanctuary of art and carried the keys with him at all times. He maintained the social façade for financial security. The more tragedies were shackled to his name, the more demand there was for his public persona to clean up after the family name and showcase his art to overshadow his domestic disasters. His prominent reputation in the limelight of the town kept buzzing while the man behind the infamy withered in privacy.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.