[T]here’s a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines...

Form follows emotion

Contemporary’ was in those days [1953] synonymous with ‘modern’ as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES!

. . . That’s what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . ....

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don’t...

Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if...

Writers remember everything…especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent...

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

Art is what we call…the thing an artist does.It’s not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art,...

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people–including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and...

Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook…..

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Can anyone capable of genuinely appreciating Mozart and Mizoguchi possibly say that he is not, in that respect, immeasurably better off than someone whose cultural horizon is limited to bingo and The Black and White...

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

Mi čitamo knjige zato da bismo čitanjem proširili granice svog ličnog iskustva. Ako nam knjiga u tom pogledu ne daje apsolutno ništa, nijednog novog fakta, nijednog samostalnog pogleda, nijene originalne ideje, ako ničim ne pokreće...

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

We want the type of artist who creates art for art’s sake. Someone who creates art for themselves, not necessarily to make money.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

Art is just an expression. An expression isn’t the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can’t always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create this new...

Transcendental artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum… the way of the shaman. The presence of glyphs speaks a universal language of the...

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Quien quiera hacer de Rembrandt un pensador, un rebelde enfrentado a su época, al encontrarse ante estas obras maestras deberá admitir que la verdad más convincente para definirlo es la furia creadora, una necesidad constante...

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens...

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

A work is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about what it is about.

It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity...

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in...

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that...

Let us embrace each other like we have the arms of two chairs. Let us dance like our legs are those of a table. We should do dinner sometime.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to...

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

A good artist should laugh often!