But maybe that’s how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it’s cool.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by...

Living together is an art.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

It is the very essence of art,’ she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., ‘that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste....

Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the...

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless ‘Why?’ and ‘What next?'(“Literature, Revolution, and Entropy”)

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

Practice transforms a skill into an art

Water runs down hill concisely. There is no quibbling about it. It does not have to run up hill in order to be entertaining. Man has always followed its course with fascination. The soul of...

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Art could state very little – it’s whole business is to evoke responses.

There’s a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead – it’s like love and hate.

A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation...

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of...

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. Anyone who expects you to has no sense of the arts.

When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.

Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

I dig art. With a shovel. In the cemetery.

I saw two statues talking to each other. I didn’t hear what they were saying, perhaps because they were whispering.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

As an artist, I’m aspiring for a Triple George—being compared to George Orwell, George Carlin, and Curious George.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

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.

The world is getting smaller and the art world is becoming more global. And although people go between the U.S. and Europe all the time, this is still primarily an American place.

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look...

I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago,” I said at once. “Elvii?” Marcone inquired.”The plural would be Elvises, I guess,” I said. “But if I say that too often,...

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

It is not knowledge that makes an artist

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole...

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The...

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If...