craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing—ex nihilo sui et subiecti, as the Latin puts it—and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs...

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.

Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don’t keep office hours.

…she (the artist, the writer) doesn’t wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Inside” ChildrenInside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by “acting out” in order to...

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange,...

Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic...

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to...

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that...

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind...

We are very honored to display Chen’s representative art pieces to the public.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Magic is logic.

Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.

This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It’s worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it...

I am the eye that beholds… And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky… For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.

I didn’t know if his art was helping. But Moses’s pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the...

Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his...

OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT’S CALLED “POETRY” – YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING’S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~

If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but a blurred image; an image composed of thousands of tiny dots of paint....

The project will use state-of-the-art technology on both the hardware and software side. The sheer size and scope makes this project physically complex and technically challenging.

In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to...

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Art is excitement which if we can’t create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

If you don’t want a generation of robots, fund the arts!

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must...

But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined.

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people

Cricket is an art. Like all arts it has a technical foundation. To enjoy it does not require technical knowledge, but analysis that is not technically based is mere impressionism.

There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the...

I am an artist you know … it is my right to be odd.

Art is the path of the creator to his work

Photography is an itch that wont go away. No matter how much you scratch it.

I am excited to see that change. An outdoor venue is an interesting take on showing art. It’ll be neat and something different.

The same person is coming through in a different medium, … My art is simple, direct and definite.

Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible.

Rules kill art.

Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. This is an appealing sentence that, so far as I can see, is not true about a...

There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be...

But the very question of whether photography is or is not an art is essentially a misleading one. Although photography generates works that can be called art –it requires subjectivity, it can lie, it gives...

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and...