A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn’t we use a little art jargon? There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate...

Take classes. Get out there and look at lots of art. Start with what you like and move a little outside of that circle, and then try to figure out what it is you don?t...

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Considering the low percentage female artists represented in recognized institutions, galleries etc. I don´t pay any of these institutions attention. I simply avoid such places. I find it insulting and can´t be bothered to support...

Art will save the world. But who will save Art?

People say you have expensive tastes.My Humble reply : I appreciate fine art, and fine art is not cheap.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death

Tis true what Hemingway says–if we’re lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920’s Paris and I did with the Beat poets, then youth’s dreams become a moveable feast...

Makebelieve is a writer’s best friend.

A metamorphosis… The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

WORDS SHLD BE FREE. RELEASE THEM FROM THEIR SENTENCES.

Act of giving something to others is an art of flowering your heart.

…it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the concept of brunt, of accepting and enduring, still seems to me to have...

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi–like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth–do not want security, egoistic or...

A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.

As an artist, if your work doesn’t inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits and sell insurance… The world needs more boundary pushers, not more boundary creators.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.

Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another’s circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others.

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the...

But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one’s ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue...

In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to attempt such a harmony in the garden of the Institute would have defeated...

The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.

I believe in walking out of a museum before the paintings you’ve seen begin to run together. How else can you carry anything away with you in your mind’s eye?

Sum of life’s reflections projected by nature and through some forms of intimacy, conceived and appreciated by the soul-beigns – …art!

Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.

If we don’t value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are very conscious of that,who find that terrifying.The thought that everyone,friend of...

But you’re an artist. You don’t believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I haven’t the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don’t believe any...

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!

When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical...

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as...

I think there is definitely a renaissance in the art community of Oakland. Oakland is starting to have self-determination and tell our stories. It’s part of the spirit of Oakland.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin – in however small a way – to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys....

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?