I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by...

Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imagine, to conjure...

… but he did not tell her, for he realised how petty it would appear to her, and how different from what she had expected, less sensational and less touching; he was afraid, too, lest,...

Art is a side product of a perfect frendship or the lack of it…

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms

The creative act is not pure.

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…

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.

Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering art. -Phil Roach

You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

Her excitement is contagious. She’s infusing science into the art curriculum.

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood ‘information.’ What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera...

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have words.

WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything will be okay.

The popular distinction between ‘constructive’ and ‘destructive’ criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To...

Life too near paralyses art.

In the same way there is much, much in all of us, but we do not know it. No one ever calls it out in us, unless we are lucky enough to know intelligent, imaginative,...

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.