Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our...

Art is ment to travel from your heart to your head and out through your fingers…

to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She’d remain outside the public sector. She’d be an anarchist, she’d travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be...

The BlessingHeads are covered by the Tallit, or prayer shawl; hands are extended out with the fingers splayed to form the shape of the letter Shin, the first letter in the word Shaddai, a name...

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

he best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a...

Dignity is not a symbol bestowed on man, nor does the word itself possess force. Man’s dignity is a force and the only modus vivendi by which man and his history survive. When mid-twentieth century...

All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me...

There’s a point at which when I start to know a man well–this isn’t true of women–I wonder whether there’s something in him that’s evil. Something that’s pure and can’t be touched. This quality of...

A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being “eternal children”, etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art...

Art is a deception that creates real emotions – a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes.

Art is a process, not a product.

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader’s, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and...

Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art — something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their...

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

He said, it’s rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven’t any choice. But it’s what you say that counts. It’s what distinguishes all great art...

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks of talent blazed up again. The blindfold suddenly fell from his eyes. God!...

They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts,” he says, “The weather, which, as they’re farmers, affects everything else. Dying and birthing, of...

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

…I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you’re actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue …

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen...

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

It is quite possible–overwhelmingly probable, one might guess–that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul’s call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

I will call up some key collectors before an art fair happens and say, ‘You should buy this,’ and without even seeing the piece, they’ll buy it. Twice it’s happened with this one collector –...

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first...

When you give me art—give me something that reaches inside of my core and twists, taking the very breath that sustains me away.Give me something that wakens me from my lethargy.Give me something that causes...

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, ‘Painting is now played out.’ But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. ‘We were wrong,’ said...

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that...

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf – almost like an evangelist.

Now then, let’s come right down in here and put some nice big strong arms on these trees. Tree needs an arm too. It’ll hold up the weight of the forest. Little bird has to...

In art one idea is as good as another.

DIVINATION, n. The art of nosing out the occult. Divination is of as many kinds as there are fruit-bearing varieties of the flowering dunce and the early fool.

A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a...

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.

If I shake hands with anti-Me it will be the end of me.

Both Anne and her art are really interesting. She has one of those personalities that jumps in your face and you instantly like her. She led us to her painting: an original of three little...

The only thing–I tell you this straight from the heart–that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can’t have any proper social intercourse with those people–and that music does not have a better reputation…For I...

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

[…] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren’t the center of the universe. That others weren’t created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity...

when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects