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.

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

Frame everything and some of it will become art.

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.

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...

Music is an outburst of the soul.

I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Art is vice. You don’t wed it, you rape it.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.

There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time...

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.

I could never be a chef, because I could ‘t bare the thought of my art always turning to shit.

This is my logo for Two-Faced

Love sounds like a trumpet mimicking a trombone. That’s one of my hobbies, when I’m not impersonating statues of mimes.

La nature est une oeuvre d’art, mais Dieu est le seul artiste qui existe, et l’homme n’est qu’un arrangeur de mauvais goût. La nature est belle, le sentiment s’exhale de tous ses pores; l’amour, la...

He gives her his Art History lecture.‘Then you get Mo-net and Ma-net, that’s a little tricky, Mo-net was the one did all the water lilies and shit, his colors were blues and greens, Ma-net was...

The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don’t get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it’s sunny, we stand in the sun. When it’s cold, we stand...

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and the other madness, yet he will find no peace on either,...

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself.Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

I wanted to do something that is generous to the whole exhibition. Contemporary art is a bit off-putting to people because they don’t know the history. Even the term contemporary art history is oxymoronic.

Don’t you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?…To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread...

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

The thing about being an artist,” Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, “is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your...

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a...

I’ll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I’d like to.

There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Sean at sixteen thought ‘Rexecutioner’s Dream’ was the greatest thing he’d ever heard, something so strange and different it seemed like a message from another realm. It had cover art, but the art was glued...