Making Art Quotes

80 Making Art quotes by 62 unique authors

Making art is a journey. — Meinrad Craighead
Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something. — Kiki Smith
I'm not making art, I'm making sushi — Masaharu Morimoto
The fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful… — Steven Levy
I am not a commercial industry creator. I don't believe in making art to make money. — Alejandro Jodorowsky
I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The… — Mark Ryden
I think it's harder than ever to be an artist. I think that you end up, especially as a middle-aged person, you pay such big… — Dana Spiotta
I like Betsy Ross as a model, too, the quilting bee, sitting around with your friends making art, asking what they think, so that you… — Kiki Smith
I think a lot of making art is listening to yourself. — Kiki Smith
I'd rather get back to making art than talk about it. — Jock Sturges
What I'm good at is making art. — Jock Sturges
I don't like watching people work if they're making art. — David Duchovny
Making art is different for everyone. — China Chow
I'm not intelligent enough to be a doctor, and kind of hands down you can't argue with the worth of that. But I don't really… — Rupert Friend
When I was young, there was never any space for me to get attention of my own that wasn't negative. Art, and the practice of… — Kim Gordon
Nothing prepares you for making art except making art. You have to do it to get better. — Philipp Meyer
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come… — Bill Viola
With Gnaw I was thinking about traditional sculpture, about carving. I was also interested in figurative sculpture. I put those two ideas together and decided… — Janine Antoni
The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance… — Audrey Niffenegger
If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art. — Henry Moore
As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it. — Damien Hirst
I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found… — Robert Rauschenberg
I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want… — Nick Bantock
Making art is like swimming underwater in a blindfold. — Walter Darby Bannard
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so… — Chuck Close

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