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.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo’s vision, ‘I saw the angel in the...

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle – poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it...

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

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.

When you’re socially awkward, you’re isolated more than usual, and when you’re isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

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

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.

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 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...

Smatrao sam da je jedina ispravna pozicija umetnika, pozicija izdajnika. Umetnik je onaj čiji smeh za pretke i tradiciju porugom se ori. Umetnost mora da stremi razlici, Drugom.

Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn’t get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the...

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception… as film is able to do today… And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons,...

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

In short, it became possible – never easy, but possible – in the poet Auden’s phrase to find the mortal world enough.

My goal is to draw a line with some ‘flavor’ to it.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you will be signing your right to freedom of expression, all artistic credibility, all of your free time and your soul over to us. Do you agree?”I grasped...

…A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.

I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist;...

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art,...