The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies, congested streets, the soot-belching boats and barges chugging up and down...

Creativity takes courage.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature–the qualities of space and time–in new...

Here in this supreme menace of the will, there approaches aredeeming, healing, enchantress—art. She alone can turn thesethoughts of repulsion at the horror and absurdity of existence intoideas compatible with life: these are the sublime—the...

When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.

I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself,...

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Artists have to have a good eye. And to be great, I’d recommend having two.

I’m stoic like a statue of Stonewall Jackson. I’d make a great U.S. President, but I’d make an even better chiseled piece of marble—and that’s what makes me such an amazing lover.

Sales is the art of giving people what they don’t know they want, when they don’t think they’ll need it, at a price they don’t think they can afford.

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then...

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.

Draw without mercy.

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That’s what can move the world....

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar’s fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.

Art is unpredictable.

Culture is local; art, universal.

Sometimes the reason offered for seeking aesthetic excellence in the music of the church is that thereby one pleases God. I think that is true. But not because we know what music God enjoys– though...

A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist’s task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore,...

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter...

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something — writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to...

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to make room for creation, spiritual energy filled the void. The energy poured into vessels which strained to hold the great...

What follows is the sum and substance of a remarkable year in a great artist’s life—Alexander Wainwright. He was at the pinnacle of his career when his art took a strange turn and I began...

Hey, Meg,” she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I’m applying for grad school.”Meghann screamed into the phone. “Oh, my God! I’m so proud of you. I’m...

poetry is when a natural melancholy what keep singing a melody

The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible. The painter shows or allows the seeing of “something”...

My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.

I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time...

In the dynamics of the main family of the story, a rising socialist in England’s postwar government expects his grandparents to be pleased that the local aristocrat’s garden is commandeered to allow the people to...

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature – art can...

If you’re a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it art. Someone will buy it.

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.

The source of our art then is not in the achievements of other artists in other days and lands, although it has learned a great deal from these, our art is founded on a long...

When the world asks “what was it like?” Only the photographer can say “See!

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

…What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.