The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new...

eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value of eloquence, associating it with his pagan background and training in Greek rhetoric while simultaneously employing it winsomely in his Christian writings. Such suspicion...

Later it would occur to him that a new life – to be a new man – would require him to take chances, to act on whim

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The work of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references or in advertising. Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam ” where you...

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don’t think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for...

No matter how hard they try, they’ll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Artist is not human, but humanity.

I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is observing another person and being observed by another person with complete attention. If...

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else–that’s how you’ll get ahead.

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know...

Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time — without the desire to reach...

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

La única comunicación adecuada con el espectador es ésta: permanecer fiel a sí mismo. Sin concesión alguna a ese ochenta por ciento de espectadores de cine que, por motivos indescifrables, exigen de nosotros, los directores,...

Telle une pierre philosophale, l’authenticité semble ainsi avoir le pouvoir de transformer en or l’assemblage de toile et de pigments que constitue un tableau.

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of Photoshop.

Make art and live simply.

je dis civilisé le peuple qui compose ses danses, malgré qu’il ne soit pour les danses ni récolte ni greniers. Alors que je dis brut le peuple qui aligne sur ses étagères des objets, fussent-ils...

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that’s not freedom! That’s...

Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn’t know.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he’s somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he’s making dream material visible.

Being an innovator is something that most people just won’t get. It’s still yummy doing this thang over here though. The older I get I’ve come to place where I just love to create so...

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

One picks one’s way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists’ smiles, the lunches with too much alcohol, the openings with more, the mobs of people desperately trying to define good taste in...

Art is personal, criticism shouldn’t be.

Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

The thing is’, (Rufus) Stone said, ‘that if you don’t believe that you are an old man, or a woman, or a tramp, then how can you expect anyone else to believe you? Looking the...

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

La buena literatura es un arte que alimenta el alma.

How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you’re finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Art isn’t only a painting. Art is anything that’s creative, passionate, and personal. And great art resonates with the viewer, not only with the creator.What makes someone an artist? I don’t think is has anything...

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn’t, of what one doesn’t know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing...

Our art is cynical and bad-ass and made by people who will not be happy until you join them in the church of “everything is fucked up, so throw up your hands.” This is art...

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness

Whistler,’ Manet called. ‘How’s your mother?

Yet she said to herself, from the dawn of time odes have been sung to love; wreathes heaped and roses; and if you asked nine people out of ten they would say they wanted nothing...

This was never about the money… Don’t you understand? A world without good art is a far more dangerous place than one you don’t get paid for making it in.

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.