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

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

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 feel it, but when I turn in a finished album — or song — you can be sure that I’ve...

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

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

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

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.

You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

This was not the perfect work that had existed in her mind. It was only the imperfect rendering that was the best her skill could manage. Yet Giulia was not dismayed. For she knew that she would try again – and again, and again, for as long as it took to gain the experience, the...

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that’s not freedom! That’s control, or power. Whereas I think Margaux understands freedom to be the freedom to take risks, the freedom to do...

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

Sehen Sie, gerade in der Kunst brauchen wir wieder eine Jugend die zu allen Problemen akitv Stellung nimmt.

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

A lot of film people are like that– especially the ones below the line, the blue-collar guys, the grunts. They like putting their hands on the equipment and getting it to do things for them. It’s not about art or ideas. It’s about working at something and making it come out right.

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists to help us recover the sensation of life; it exists to make us feel things, to make the stone stony....

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist’s] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.

I want constructive energy generated by every brushstroke and between every line.

When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree

Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up...

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

It’s a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.

I’ll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.

I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my bed. As the years passed by, I watched it slowly transforming into a work of art which still lives above my head. And that my friend, is truly living art.

Every plain wall deserves a piece of work, so why not cover it with a smile?

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before being displayed and disposed of at ground level.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

I must,” then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most.Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that...

Telle une pierre philosophale, l’authenticité semble ainsi avoir le pouvoir de transformer en or l’assemblage de toile et de pigments que constitue un tableau.

We have our Arts so we won’t die of Truth

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in Future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.We are cups, constantly and quietly...

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Art is not eternal.

Don’t just be a consumer, be a creator. Somewhere inside you is a masterpiece waiting to be exposed.

Art is the only proof we have that we told the truth.

While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work harder to beat them.

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true that the new tastemakers are us.

The art of being a good guest is to know when to leave

Once all the blocks were on the quad, Rowena grew obsessed with arranging them perfectly. I didn’t care at this point and busied myself texting a message to Sydney on the Love Phone, letting her know that my art was a paltry thing compared to the brilliance of her beauty. She texted back: This is...

Art doesn’t have to make sense, little dhamphir. Besides, I’m supposed to be crazy, right?

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It’s like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you’ve thought of or admire in others.