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Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

Artists and artisans both demonstrate with perfect clarity that a person is least able to appropriate for himself those things which are most peculiarly his. His works leave him as birds do the best in...

The source of our art then is not in the achievements of other artists in other days and lands, although it has learned a great deal from these, our art is founded on a long...

When the world asks “what was it like?” Only the photographer can say “See!

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

…What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Imagination creates reality.

The ultimate message of this book, though, is not that should strive for publication, but that you should become devoted to the craft of writing, for its own sake. Ask yourself what you would do...

Remember when we didn’t know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form, when light and dark were not necessary for the picture to...

Trying to express yourself is more powerful than trying to be the best.

Look, I don’t see why bad artists – I mean artists who are obviously incompetent… – why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they’re supposed to be advancing the frontiers of...

Why Dream?Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of...

A few people can understand the art, others just look at it and walk away. So what! Not all heads are packed with brain, some of them are accommodating emptiness.

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...