Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well….

A ‘black’ man who draws a ‘black’ person with big lips is called observant. A ‘white’ man who does the same is called a racist.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its...

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Art arises from loss. I wish this weren’t the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that...

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations – the gods write their signature in our entrails

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

My child has to be an artist,because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

I guess the fact that they made something they could be proud of is more important than any prize ever could be. I can understand that. The beauty of the clothing itself is in the...

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing...

Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start making your own stuff. I hang pictures of my favourite artists in my studio. They’re like friendly ghosts....

It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature’; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.

El artista no tiene ningún derecho moral para dejarse llevar a un abstracto nivel medio, para hacer que su obra sea más comprensible, más accesible. Esto no acarrearía otra cosa que la decadencia del arte,...

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I’m close.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

My art comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.

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...

Dying is also an art and just like any other art it must be learned.

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...

On the Rules of PerspectiveA bad trick. Mistake. Dishonesty. These are the views of Braque. Why? Braque rejected perspective. Why? Someone who spends his life drawing profiles will end up believing that man has one...

When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn’t tell us to go to church. He didn’t tell us to engage in a spiritualized version of channel surfing, as we hop from place...

When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

Abstract means literally to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract.

Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re...

Balance is the enemy of art.

STUFF POETS STILL LIKE: POETRY

Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing /to do just that; be it a sonnet, a statue, a landscape, an outline...

…how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could...

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system...

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you...

This plant is born of honey, with honey do we dig for thee. Of honey thou art begotten, do thou make us full of honey!

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Between Margaret’s fine edged art and Glady’s rough simplicity, where did the greater feminine solace lie? True art, after all, is simple.

Music is the purest form of art… therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music… The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his...

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That’s something I want to see again. In terms...

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we...

Of all the hardships and deprivations a people can suffer, I am not sure if the deprivations of art and culture are not the most devastating. As meat and rice are food for the body,...

Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

If we are in a general way permitted to regard human activity in the realm of the beautiful as a liberation of the soul, as a release from constraint and restriction, in short to consider...

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it.