Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire...

The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though–and what an odd way to achieve success. I’m an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.

Copies have been dethroned; the economic model built on them is collapsing. In a regime of superabundant free copies, copies are no longer the basis of wealth. Now relationships, links, connections, and sharing are. Value...

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may...

[Raphael’s] great superiority is due to the instinctive sense which, in him, seems to desire to shatter form. Form is, in his figures, what it is in ourselves, an interpreter for the communication of ideas...

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

Art is the proper task of life.

…but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured and dishonored, and have distilled of your deliverers the most...

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.

Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.

The stratagems by which briefly youameliorated, even seeminglyuntwisted what still twists within you —you loved their taste and lay thereon your sidenursing like a puppy.

If I could go back in time, I’d love to whisper sweet nothings in Van Gogh’s ear, but not while it was attached to his head.

I drew a portrait of an invisible man on a nice canvas, because that’s all you see. Oh, and I used a nice frame. I think that’s important. I believe the best art uses the...

Sales is the art of canvasing a field, framing a problem, and painting a solution. But you can’t go Van Gogh on a deal. You’ve got to use both your ears.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

And that, I guessed, was the aim of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men: to serve up rich helpings of life to their audiences, to introduce them to people they would never otherwise meet, to stretch their...

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

[Audubon’s works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned into words spoken,written,painted,strummed across guitar strings,or vibrantly held note by Tibetan singing bowl,...

Swansea is a town where art is alive. If it became a cultural centre or a resort where art was fashionable and where it was always being discussed but never being created, it would be...

Free-throw shooting is a lost art. It’s not as good as it once was, and maybe it is because coaches are limited with how much time they can dedicate to free throws in practice and...

Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur...

In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. … The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect...

If you have walked into a museum recently – whether you did so to attend an art exhibition or to escape from the police – you may have noticed a type of painting known as...

The craving for recognition is every artist’s Achilles heel.

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

We must live with our hearts in our hands – like Mary.We must hold the blood-red heart and no be disappointedwhen others look away.

Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living.

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure…

If art made you think, then this was Art. Staring at the ball, made of layers and layers of cloth, I wondered about the glass marble at its heart. What if you wanted to reach...

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom...

A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore risky to send it out into the world. How often it...

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

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…