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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

But maybe that’s how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it’s cool.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by...

Living together is an art.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

It is the very essence of art,’ she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., ‘that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste....

Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the...

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless ‘Why?’ and ‘What next?'(“Literature, Revolution, and Entropy”)

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

Practice transforms a skill into an art

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...

Water runs down hill concisely. There is no quibbling about it. It does not have to run up hill in order to be entertaining. Man has always followed its course with fascination. The soul of...

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

Art could state very little – it’s whole business is to evoke responses.

There’s a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead – it’s like love and hate.

A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation...

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of...

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. Anyone who expects you to has no sense of the arts.

When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.

Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.