In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer...

A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily,...

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, “I AM HERE”… To whom?.. To where?… Where am I going to…?

It doesn’t do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. – Then she touched her hand to her heart. – Beautiful things sometimes do.

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired…Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time....

A women’s heart beat is very rapid; it jumps from love to hate, in seconds when in silence there is surely madness.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Life is art and art is life.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen.

But at the end of the day, you can’t major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

He couldn’t imagine using the word ‘rewarding’ about a work of art – for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. – but thought...

What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.

It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.

I am a single drop of blood trying to mix in with billions of red paint splatters in this Pollack painting called life. I think the cops are trying to frame me.

As a sculptor, I prefer busts. As a lover of women, I prefer busts. And as a football enthusiast, I prefer Robert Griffin III.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it’s process.

…[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had...

Don’t wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you’re gonna have to run.

Art does what reality cannot.

Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would never again be loved In the old days you would have turned monk...

The first thousand are the hardest.

There are absolutely no rules in art

In the twentieth century, science has been everything and the arts almost nothing by comparison. As a result, many artists now pretend to be scientists. They try to imitate the strategies of science. Paintings that...

If you don’t have shadows, you’re not in the light.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top drawer of my bedside table. When I went with Sophia to the Taj...

Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone...

Co do szczegółów, to podobał mi się fragment na temat alkoholu. Z dłuższych cytatów, przytaczanych niestety bez podawania źródeł, wynika tutaj, że często nieodparta atrakcyjność alkoholu polega nie na fizycznej przyjemności, lecz na jego mistycznej...

The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that the elements of the design mean when they are processed by the viewer.

To extract major truths from minor details is an artist’s job.

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that...

…to make art is to realize another’s sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people’s lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.

If you want to be yourself, sometimes you can’t compare the economic benefit with art.

The most beautiful work of art that we can create is this life.

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul.

Submitting to history allows us to remember our society’s past. Although writing and art express history, it’s our humanity which keeps all of us striving for an improved future.

I am the Constellation of my own

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people.

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

I think that’s what art is: art is communication made in the hope that interesting miscommunications will arise.

The canvas is the door to another dimension. The paintbrush is the key.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen...