Art Quote by John Huston Download Open image “A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.” — John Huston ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Dare Realizing Works of art
The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a flowering dream. Ideas grow, budding silently, and there are a thousand illuminations coming day by day as the work progresses. A seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor… — Carson McCullers Copy Share
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the… — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“Everything is gestation and then bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in the inexpressible, the unconscious, beyond the reach of one's own intelligence, and await with deep humility and patience the birth-hour of a new clarity: that alone is living the artist's life, in understanding and… — Rainer M. Rilke Copy Share
Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
“It must be remembered that no art lives by nature, only by acts of voluntary attention on the part of human individuals. When these… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end… — Carl Jung Copy Share
“I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The parasite of art, the virus of art, never ceases to gnaw awat at your brain, never ceases to torture you with the knowledge… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the… — John Huston Copy Share Image
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A… — John Huston Copy Share Image
I don't approve of censorship. I like the French theatre idea. Put on the play, and if the audience doesn't care for it, or… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she… — John Huston Copy Share Image
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you… — John Huston Copy Share Image
Marilyn was one step from oblivion when I directed her in The Asphalt Jungle. I remember she impressed me more off the screen than… — John Huston Copy Share Image
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. — John Huston Copy Share Image
Whenever something is convenient or was modified after 1970, you probably shouldn't use it as root. — John Huston Copy Share Image
I Don't Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It's Hard Enough to Know What I Like. — John Huston Copy Share Image
What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around… — John Huston Copy Share Image
There is a wilful lemming-like persistance in remaking past successes time after time. They can't make them as good as they are in our… — John Huston Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image