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...

The idea that any art is achieved ‘intuitively’ is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of...

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been...

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he’d asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like ‘Clocks don’t melt!’...

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.

Time is Art of God.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unlike.

Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain’s LE VICE ERRANT)

Art then becomes a safety valve for the expression of individual and collective neuroses originating in the inability of coping with the environment. Its products serve as a retarded correction of perception braked by the...

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

We don’t need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches,...

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for...

Her life is lived through the masterpiece of art, that she cannot draw.

There is a common tendency to turn off one’s imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to do certain things and cope with the attendant moral problems. The things simply...

We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

And whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than...

Technique should be taught, not as an end in itself, but as somethingrelated to individual expression, as a means toward an end. One cannotseparate technique from expression. There is only expression.

My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don’t have the luxury of experiencing in real life.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Art is about the moment we haven’t experienced yet.

A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.

Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that “looks like art” and behave in ways that enhance stereotypes. Curators pander to the expectations of their peers and...

To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

A Gift for YouI send you…A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is...

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Believe that you can do it cause you can do it.

Bathrooms are a great place for art.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before...

Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.

Next time you’re off to get a new painting, bring a mirror and you’ll see right away if it’ll bring you gratification or not.

Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration—poetry, novels, music, dancing—if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.

Sehen Sie, gerade in der Kunst brauchen wir wieder eine Jugend die zu allen Problemen akitv Stellung nimmt.