Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

A good artist should laugh often!

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

We zijn inferieure schepselen, net goed genoeg om te jongen. We hebben eierstokken, moeten ons er iedere maand bij neerleggen dat we bloeden, we zijn afhankelijk van de maan. Onze hersenen zijn minder ontwikkeld dan...

If I took a candy bar, ripped off the wrapper, ate the candy bar, and pinned the wrapper to the wall, is that art, performance art, both, or neither?

I shaved my pubic hair, glued it on a wig, and declared it art. No museum was willing to exhibit it. I should have sprinkled cheddar cheese on top and called it An Ode To...

Vidite, umetnik, to je “sumnjivoo lice”, maskiran čovek u sumraku, putnik sa lažnim pasošem. Lice pod maskom je divno, njegov rang je mnogo viši nego što u pasošu piše, ali šta to mari? Ljudi ne...

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

Yang indah memang bisa menghibur selama-lamanya, membubuhkan luka selama-lamanya, meskipun puisi dan benda seni bisa lenyap. Ia seakan-akan roh yang hadir dan pergi ketika kata dilupakan dan benda jadi aus.Tapi apa arti roh tanpa tubuh...

…that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only...

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider – without question – as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching...

Writing isn’t a source of pain. It’s psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

It’s more mental than anything else. It is more than just the art of shooting.

Art is a kind of mining,” he said. “The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Unexplained isn’t a word it’s a statement of what it meant.And i guess in the real world that definition doesn’t exists in a conceptual way.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.

Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result.

I can’t understand how people can have grown up in the eighties, amidst all this competitive spirit, gangster battles, hiphop – and still pretend that artists are ‘colleagues’ that should be bloody nice to each...

Once you’ve mastered starting and stopping, the rest is easy.

The artist is always dancing with death.

Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

Art is communication.

But you’re an artist. you should know there’s more to a story than the part happening right now.

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which...

She’s the first lady who has mastered the art of kimono making and she donated about forty pieces to Koji, and he is expressing it into the European draping. It’s wrapping.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

And I bet it’s harder than people think, isn’t it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that’s when you have to rise to the...

It’s just amazing what he does because he’s not throwing 94, 93 mph. You watch Greg Maddux, that’s an art.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Bridges are built by words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Art and love bring them all together…

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show...

You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so.

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values….

Colors are light’s suffering and joy

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us...

Good artists copy; great artists steal.

Are we to paint what’s on the face, what’s inside the face, or what’s behind it?

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of...

I miss art. I miss art. Life would be worth living if I had art.

Different lifestory but with a same lovestoryThey mey once by serendipitySmiled at each other but totally stranger

You can’t draw her because you idolize her. You keep trying to create a tribute. But these drawings aren’t about that. They’re the truth.

I expect to see the coming decades transform the planet into an art form; the new man, linked in a cosmic harmony that transcends time and space, will sensuously caress and mold and pattern every...

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.