There must always be two kinds of art: escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep, and parable-art, that art which shall teach man to unlearn hatred and learn love.

Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind

Stories of absurd events in life get my creative juices flowing and have so far given birth to some of my best ideas.

Work hard. “Suit yourself, then you’ll know at least one person is pleased.

Not “Seeing is Believing,” you ninny, but “Believing is Seeing.” For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things...

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so...

There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.

It’s a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it’s healthy that people...

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that...

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I’m not painting. It’s in the subconscious.

art is self-sufficient and need serve no moral or political purpose

Flesh is willing, but the Soul requiresSisyphean patience for its song,Time, Hippocrates remarked, is shortand Art is long.

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then,...

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.(Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball)

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of...

The Art of War.

Art does not exist only to entertain — but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There are enough ideas, images, symbols, and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It’s a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery, though. Sometimes you get in and...

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He’s always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Edward genially enough did not disagree with what I said, but he didn’t seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the ad hominem to...

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard’s vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

In portraiture I look for people that I recognise – ‘Look, it’s Uncle Tony’ – or for the faces of film stars. The Madame Tussaud’s school of art appreciation. In realist works I look for...

Never judge a work of art by its defects

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It’s fodder for poets and song writers and they build it into something beyond human capacity. Falling in love means enrolling...

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on ‘Heraclitean Fire’)

Outline of your frameMy paper witness your silhouetteSipping in coffeeMy muse, my Juliet.Afternoon spent,In hungry desiresEnding with a kissOn your coffee lips.

I’m going to punch words in your ear holes.

Art is a passion or it is nothing

For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.

Letter To Stalin”)

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

… one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read a...

I’m often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.

There is always a commanding and simple line around each head. Learn to have a love for the big simple line.

Art Kehoe is a fantastic addition to our staff. He brings energy and great passion for football to our program. He’s an outstanding recruiter and has coached some of the best lines in collegiate football.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]

I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.

You have volition. You can make changes to your work. You have a say over your artistic output. You have the ability to exercise your will. Hanging around waiting for someone else’s approval takes you...

It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.