That’s because only a real artist knows the actual anatomy of the terrible or the physiology of fear – the exact sort of lines and proportions that connect up with latent instincts or hereditary memories...

…when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another. But when you enter the world of the cartoon, you see yourself.

Every second vibrates within our Present moment, our now. In one split second of awareness, we can create a Life full of Light, Joy, and Love.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse...

Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.

It’s not like a Sundance Film Festival. Certainly it’s more about the craft and celebrating the actual art of filmmaking, not necessarily a business-type situation.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

The privilege of struggling artists is … the life being buried in what we can’t really afford of* what a gorgeous life!!

In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.

The Moms revealed that if you’re not crazy then speaking to someone who isn’t there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.

When we are attuned to our inner voice, life becomes art and art becomes life.

Modern paintings are like women, you’ll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Mishaps in life echoes for eternity. Weeks from now, I will be harvesting my glory. Imagine greater!

Monsters are beasts that cannot be tamed.

You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.

All the painters who appear in our museums are failures at painting; the only people ever talked about are failures; the world is divided into two categories of people: failures and those unknown.

It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other describes it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he...

Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it’s a good design for a bus.

… Have you ever reflected that posterity may not be the faultless dispenser of justice that we dream of? One consoles oneself for being insulted and denied, by reyling on the equity of the centuries...

Regarding the creative: never assume you’re the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you’re masterful.

It’s very hard to whisper in your own ear. Love is an art, but as an artist, I guess I’m no Van Gogh.

Rather than demolish an abandoned warehouse, why not just cover it with graffiti and call it art?

I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it...

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and...

Shigemori’s body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

I don’t have technique because I never learnt any.

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind...

If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you’re talking about don’t leave a single, solitary thing...

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Något av det viktigaste i all konst: att överlåta en anständig del åt läsaren, betraktaren, den medverkande. Det ska finnas en tom plats vid det dukade bordet. Den är hans.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

All great art is a form of complaint

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Lying for lying’s sake is the inspiration behind all great art

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.

It becomes one who is called to be a soldier, and to go a warfare, to endeavor to excel in the art of war. It becomes one who is called to be a mariner, and...

L’œuvre est une expression de ce qu’est l’homme, de ce qu’il sent, de ce en quoi il croit. Si elle se perpétue et si elle se développe, ce n’est pas tant à cause de l’homme...

Art is their weapon against forgetting.

I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls...

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to “overcome” doubt.

Toutes les erreurs de la critique commises à mon égard, à mes débuts, furent qu’elle ne vit pas qu’il ne fallait rien définir, rien comprendre, rien limiter, rien préciser, parce que tout ce qui est...

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. This requires a moment of pause–a contract with yourself through the object you look...

Gormenghast. Withdrawn and ruinous it broods in umbra: the immemorial masonry: the towers, the tracts. Is all corroding? No. Through an avenue of spires a zephyr floats; a bird whistles; a freshet beats away from...