Art never comes from happiness.

Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.

Your goal in life is to find out the people who need you the most, to find out the business that needs you the most, to find the project and the art that needs you...

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art corrupts. Absolute art corrupts absolutely. Please corrupt me absolutely.

In many ways an artist is his work. It’s difficult to separate the two. I think I can be brutally objective about my work as I create it, and if something doesn’t work, I can...

Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.

Dancing is to music what a beloved wife is to her husband. Both of them are so in love, you can’t separate them.

The art of civil conversation begins at birth. Then goes from the dinner table to the schoolroom, to interaction among friends, to the work place, and on to other places where all manner of social...

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions.

That’s art. Nothing is for everybody.

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists.. Modern art is...

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

When I was in art school, we were looking one day at a slide of some great fifteenth century painting, and one of the students asked ‘Why don’t artists paint like that now?’ The room...

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

When happiness rides on the wings of art, it transcends time.

Winemaking is an artistic creation in which you deal with a variety of styles, colors, and inspiration, therefore, good wine, like good art, can evoke emotions, sensations and create an experience that leaves a lasting...

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

The Seeker, The Teacher and The Genius:Knowing is an art; communicating that knowledge is art twice over; but it is only the genius who can use that knowledge.

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art’s aim.The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful...

If our cultural lives are sick, it is likely to be an impediment to our spiritual lives. Much popular culture promotes a spirit of restlessness. That is likely to be an obstacle to prayer, to...

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

As an artist, I’m aspiring for a Triple George—being compared to George Orwell, George Carlin, and Curious George.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind...

If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you’re talking about don’t leave a single, solitary thing...

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Något av det viktigaste i all konst: att överlåta en anständig del åt läsaren, betraktaren, den medverkande. Det ska finnas en tom plats vid det dukade bordet. Den är hans.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

All great art is a form of complaint

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Lying for lying’s sake is the inspiration behind all great art

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.

It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art of war. It becomes one who is called to be a mariner, and...

L’œuvre est une expression de ce qu’est l’homme, de ce qu’il sent, de ce en quoi il croit. Si elle se perpétue et si elle se développe, ce n’est pas tant à cause de l’homme...

Art is their weapon against forgetting.

I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls...

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to “overcome” doubt.

Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises à mon égard, à mes débuts, furent qu’elle ne vit pas qu’il ne fallait rien définir, rien comprendre, rien limiter, rien préciser, parce que tout ce qui est...

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This requires a moment of pause–a contract with yourself through the object you look...