Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died,...

What does the novel know? It has no practical or educational aim; yet it knows what ordinary knowledge cannot seize. The novel’s intricate tangle of character-and-incident alights on the senses with a hundred cobwebby knowings...

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that...

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

a spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will have toshow me said the spideri scurry aroundgutters and sewersand garbage...

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of...

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.

She told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch.

I put my deodorant on like I’m painting my armpits with a paintbrush. Art is everywhere and in everything—especially love.

A water fountain is a drinkable sculpture. I just drank one shaped like my father, and I can’t wait to shoot him out of my penis, so I can abandon him like he did to...

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Creativity can impact some sort of “CHANGE” in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure “DIFFERENCES” and work together for a common cause.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.

I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

The brightest stars don’t necessarily give the most light.

Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn’t just march into a recording studio and start howling. He’d have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the...

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity…

Is this when you tell me I’m your soul mate, O’Neill?

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

concessions ” ; on ne fait pas l’art qu’on veut. L’artiste est, au jour le jour, le réceptacle de choses ambiantes; il reçoit du dehors des sensations qu’il transforme par voie fatale, inexorable et tenace,...

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to blow something up and watch all the tiny pieces resettle around them like...

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state...

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that’s when you know it’s real, when it’s good.

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove… that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround...

Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art?

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the pain, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you’re...

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take...

War’s a brain spattering windpipe splitting art.

The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our deepest secret, the only one that deserves expression, always remains unexpressed. This secret...