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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

… in art nothing is more secondary than the author’s intentions.

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.

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...

Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

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...

Don’t we all know that art is dangerous. You play it – then you live it.

Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language

A Gift for YouI send you…The gift of a letter from your wise self. This is the part of you that sees you with benevolent, loving eyes. You find this letter in a thick envelope...

It’s rather the possibility of friendship, unencumbered by feelings of attraction or shyness; the possibility of working on the same wavelength, as it were, with someone who understands you because he’s a boy as you...

Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.

So there were two worlds: the perceived world, a dimension of adjectives, equations and brush strokes, a surface dazzling with our efforts to render it, but ultimately bearing only our own reflections; and the impenetrable...

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.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask...

Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Sometimes an artist’s first invention is herself.

As a lover or a dipsomaniac, I’ve no doubt of your being a most fascinating specimen. But as a combiner of forms, you must honestly admit it, you’re a bore.

If you can’t focus then how do you expect to make your dreams come true?

The secret of good magic is another magic.

It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic...

Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our...

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.