Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.

The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile ‘eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden.

When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I’ve tried to express just that. If I...

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of...

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are...

Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think...

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

Haven’t I told you scores of times, that you’re always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the...

More than half.” True, but would they also know Georgia is a state, a country, and a painter?

If love were a collection of collections, would your relationship be banged-up baseball cards, or famous art? My love for you is famous art. You just have to wait for my death so my work...

Love is on the move like a picture of a statue. I should know, because I painfully painted it.

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!

Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured...

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The verb ‘to darn’ is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: ‘To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.’ But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished...

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

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...