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...

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

All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.

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...

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...

I’m an unabashed elitist. Everyone needs a good editor, and there is peril in worshiping amateurism and the unedited in science, art, and journalism.

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.

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...

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

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

In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.

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 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...

Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from...

I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

Creating anything that never existed before is not sanity.

We crafted everything that hurt us into art.

Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.

Rumfoord had known that Constant would try to debase the picture by using it in commerce. Constant’s father had done a similar thing when he found he could not buy Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” at any...

Laugh, if thou art wise

At the end of his life, which had included financial ruin in the Great Depression, his wife’s barbiturate addiction and death by overdose, and then his own lung cancer, Doc said, “It was enough to...

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

Everything you can imagine is real.

God creates the beauty. My camera and I are a witness.

He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back,...

Artists have a habit of becoming what they practice on the canvas. Who knows when it began? When he discovered that the sky, filtered through a ghostly veil, would prove so profoundly right? I admit...

In art the best is good enough.

Not to admire is all the art I know.