Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches...

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the...

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.

Jamie came back to the apartment one night to find her spreading a viscous fluid onto a canvas. It was threaded wtih blood. “Good God,” he said. “What the hell is that?” Pia didn’t bother...

The picture is not a documentary, … It’s a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you’re trying to make something work. And the choices we...

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

If you can sustain your interest in what you’re doing, you’re an extremely fortunate person. What you see very frequently in people’s professional lives, and perhaps in their emotional life as well, is that they...

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them – that does not occur to them.

The Vancouver Art Gallery is one of our leading cultural institutions. We want them in a high-profile site downtown, somewhere close to Georgia Street.

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.

Serious art is born from serious play.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Art like life is an open secret.

Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty?...

An apocryphal story recounts the dilhemma of a man during the Civil War who could not decide whether to join the Confederate or Union forces. Finally he put on a gray coat and blue pants,...

Everywhere you walk, every place you go is full of art, explicit or hidden! If you can see them, you will be the richest art collector and your memory will be the richest art gallery!

You can be taught to write – you can’t be taught to be an artist

…my writing is a wild mustang – more thunderous than a lightning storm -and all my skill which I call art, is devoted to simply staying on…

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

This kind of passionate faith can be painful. Not caring is easy. Caring hurts. Caring costs you something. But without this sort of faith, you will never create to your fullest potential. Faith is a...

I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends–and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

A gypsy girl approached Don Zana and Alfanhui and held out her tambourine. Don Zana said to her, ‘You don’t pay for art, kid.

Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.” The painting can also inspire a physical response in the form of tears as it calls to mind its more earth-bound aspects;...

Identifying Your DreamSome people can easily identify one primary dream. For others, a dream is more elusive. These people often have many dreams at once, or a general idea of a dream that never takes...

The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is what should have been talked about in this assembly, and no...

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It’s like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God...

Don’t keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it....

The art world will never be the same in the way it deals with Nazi-confiscated art.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist’s] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves...

[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!