This is my logo for Mike

If I could capture the rays of the sun in a can, I’d paint a canvas with it and have you look at my work until the memory of my work was burned in your...

In the lobby of every business incubator there needs to be a bathtub, to get the ideas flowing. But to make it funktional, it needs to be used as a fish tank.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at...

Infantile love follows the principle: “I love because I am loved.” Mature love follows the principle: “I am loved because I love.” Immature love says: “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says:...

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning

Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is...

every good artist paints what he is

The only weapon capable of destroying the system is called ART!

It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the same today.

The whole concatenation of wild and artificial things, the natural ecosystem as modified by people over the centuries, the build environment layered over layers, the eerie mix of sounds and smells and glimpses neither natural...

Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound. If it were we should have no interest in the art of the past, except as history or documentary. But our interest in...

Art is a terrible preacher, but a tremendous conversationalist.

Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can’t create out of indifference.

Original art emanates in the mind … and lessons society’s confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

I understand art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being

Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than...

Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it’s there inside...

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to those who make of it a living influence. Thus they sought to regulate their daily life by the high standard of refinement which...

En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey...

I would show you this quality in all the writers whose works you read while I’m asleep, I would show you the same identity as in Vinteuil. These key-phrases, which you are beginning to recognise...

Time is art of the art.

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that’s how I felt about drawing.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable permanence that paintings in museums do.There is a small crack in the lower...

Ah! my dear friend, to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us… a consolatory art for distressed hearts! There are as yet only a few who feel it...

The brightest sun of the art mostly rises on the dark horizons of the deep unhappiness.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

Creado por él, para él mismo, el arte ayudó al hombre a hablar sobre lo prohibido,, a vivir lo desconocido, a experimentar lo imposible.

God and other artists are always a little obscure…..

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do.