One should engage in all sorts of breadless arts.

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

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.

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may...

If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it the soil it needs, the amount of moisture, the amount of care, but...

I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.

If I were you I’d put that away. See you’re just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you’ll be okay.

…hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HIV – I...

Pour qu’un produit majeur de l’esprit soit capable d’avoir aussitôt un effet vaste et profond, il faut qu’une affinité secrète, qu’un accord même existe entre le destin personnel de son auteur et celui, général, de...

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the “picture” end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is...

Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

Surviving a stupor of madness,drunk silence ‘have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.

Love is a bronze statue sinking in quicksand. But if I hand you a lasso, will you try to save the statue—or use the lasso to hang yourself? If you need me, I’ll be here...

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

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

You must write as if Dostoyevsky himself will be reading your novel, and Shakespeare will be acting it out.

I cannot recall having believed, even as a child, that the purpose of reading fiction was to learn about the place commonly called the real world. I seem to have sensed from the first that...

He has heard, and causes those with ears to hear, even today, what we shall not see until the end of time – the whole context of Providence. As though in the light of this...

…as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.