A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line…To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life...

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty,...

You’ve sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed...

This imaginary gift is a journey for your imagination.I send you…A luxury train ride. On this train are all the inspiring people you’ve ever wanted to meet or talk to. You glide from car to...

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence;Gide, though I didn’t know it then, gave part.They taught me to express my deep abhorrenceIf I caught anyone preferring ArtTo Life and Love and being Pure-in-heart.I...

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you...

As an observer of human nature, let’s just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.

What, indeed? It is art for art’s sake, Watson.

worked so far out beyond the frontiers of conventional studio art that they have no names themselves for the forms they create.

An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.

A blank canvas…has unlimited possibilities.

True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.

If it’s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, it’s going to shine. It’s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas...

He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.

I Don’t Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.

In the art of magic be quick of sleight and slow of climax.

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the profile, can shape the students. What the educator does in teaching is to make...

While I anticipate the moment to come home to my wife, she anticipates the moment I comes home to her. Marriage is a beautiful portrait, and Love is a beautiful background.

I don’t like the shrug. It’s an abdication of responsibility for making sure that art keeps doing the things that art should do. If you shrug, that keeps the wheels turning the way they’re turning....

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and...

Writing an unwritten thing, read the unreadable.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

Remember that “seeing is believing” puts the cart before the horse. Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of...

I always felt that someone, a long time ago, organized the affairs of the world into areas that made sense-catagories of stuff that is perfectible, things that fit neatly in perfect bundles. The world of...

..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you’re dyslexic like me you can’t tell the difference.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Research has a dirty name, … because people think you can’t research art. One of the common fallacies is if a song doesn’t research well, it won’t get on, but it doesn’t happen like that....

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me.

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking...

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don’t look at it as an art form. They think it’s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Art has no rules. That’s what makes it art.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like...

If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens.

priestly” aims, it presupposes and confirms the existence of a relatively passive, never fully initiated, voyeuristic laity which is regularly convoked to watch, listen, read, or hear — and then sent away.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

It’s the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they’re what keeps life from being meaningless.

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it...

There is no art without contemplation.