Art Quote by Umberto Eco

Nobody is made anything by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory; practice must settle the habit of doing, without reflecting…

— John Locke

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

— Donald Barthelme

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

— Robert Kubica

“An artist does not have to think about what he is doing.”

— Irving Stone

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

— Ananda Coomaraswamy

An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought…

— Carl Andre

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were…

— Arthur Erickson

The artist can know all the technique in the world, but if he feels nothing, it will mean nothing.

— Chen Chi

"Work" does not exist in a nonliterate world. The primitive hunter or fisherman did no work, any more than does the poet, painter, or…

— Marshall McLuhan

The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work.…

— Rheta Childe Dorr

“You are right to demand that an author be conscious of what he is doing, but you are confusing two concepts: solving the problem…

— Anton Chekhov