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...

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

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.

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

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...

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

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

Art is the path of the creator to his work.

Well then – I see two ways of letting things take their course – Create one’s own sensations with the help of a flamboyant collision of rare words – not often, mind you – or...

The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then...

Nude paintings and sculptures are called “art” only in the museums..Outside of the museums, It is “Absurdity” and “Vulgarity”.To respect your own creative talent and the prosperity of your “art”, let only the Gurus critique,...

Anything that is not necessary to the painting damages it.” Henri Matisse

… I find myself most drawn to: art that has arisen from a deeply personal conversation between the artist and the work at hand. It is art that walks perilously close to the Edge, that...

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The...

I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that came under...

If the photographer isn’t going to pay attention to the picture he is making, that if he thinks the camera is just a machine and not an avenue of expression, then he has no business...

It’s just a chair,” but I like to think it’s more than a chair. I like to seek deeper meaning in things, even inanimate things. I know this makes me sound like a complete nutcase,...

Competition is the death of art.

This is the dialectic – there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

Qui cache son fou, meurt sans voix

Storytelling–that’s not the future. The future, I’m afraid, is flashes and impulses. It’s mode up of moments and fragments, and stories won’t survive.

Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old material you can’t write new material, and you must remember all you’ve written...

Now let’s talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the world. It’s so powerful. Because of people dreaming; things are being done and things are being...

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life...

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite,within I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

It’s not enough to be the best. You also have to be seen by the most. A masterpiece painting hanging in the storage unit of the artist who painted it is not art—it’s irrelevant. It’s...

I want to be the guy who the guy you admire admires. I hope his name is Guy, because I admire M.C. Escher.

Snuggling is an art. And I’m no Rembrandt—I’m a cat. I am pure cuddling genius.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Individuality is the highest, deepest form of art.

We want to encourage younger art fans, 21 and up, to come out for a night of dancing and for a chance to appreciate some great art.

Some part of me knew that I could play this part well, or better than well. But I was almost afraid to play it. The line between stage and life was so fragile here that...

An idea is salvation by imagination

Horse[Man you will find herea new representation of the universeat its most poetic and most modernMan man man man man manGive yourself up to this art where the sublimedoes not exclude charmand brilliancy does not...

I know the empathy borne of despair; I know the fluidity of thought, the expansive, even beautiful, mind that hypomania brings, and I know this is quicksilver and precious and often it’s poison. There has...

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

For half a century photography has been the “art form” of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger...

First rule of restorations. Never do what you can’t undo.

Every time when you think,Think about every first 20 seconds of your best Moments in your life time.

Lines that are drawn makes merely drawings which is Art separated from Life.

I don’t want these. They’re mud and they’ve got no color. Or at least the color is different from what I’m used to. Take any American city, in autumn, or in winter, when the light...

Like many people who dress in black, the lump of coal was interested in becoming an artist.

The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming.

You break through the veil whenever you strap on a sword or chant the ancient verses. You escape when you write a poem or a tale that brings beauty into the world. You are set...

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our...

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers…

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.