True freedom only exists in art.The problem is you have to be incredibly good.No,I am putting it wrong:You don’t so much have to be outstanding,what you really need are connections,if you don’t want to be...

It’s a lost art in our society to help others to this extent. Our pilots use their own planes and fuel to serve those with certain (conditions).

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the...

A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my — dealer — here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for...

The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

When there’s music in your soul, there’s soul in your music.

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

If somebody’s getting depressed in life, I would say, “Look at me’. I’ve got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not go as you expected and you could feel as if you were ruining...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the...

The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you...

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

I’ve become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof....

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of...

It is the form that allows a writer the greatest opportunity to explore human experience…For that reason, reading a novel is potentially a significant act. Because there are so many varieties of human experience, so...

…the second time you see something is really the first time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it’s put together from the beginning.

Art is the process of relationship. Through art we create and share ourselves.

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

Consider everything an experiment.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that’s just fine with the artist.

…The efficacy of psychedelics with regard to art has to do with their ability to render language weightless, as fluid and ephemeral as those famous “bubble letters” of the sixties. Psychedelics, I think, disconnect both...

They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-“Where are you going?” which is precisely what they asked me a year later...

I watched a bowl of fruit on the table remain motionless. Just another example of life imitating art.

My cat stood still like a furry statue. I wanted to go pet it, but I ended up petting a painting instead. Ah, but that’s life, no?

This is my logo for Ora

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass...

Je voudrais te rejoindre dans l’idéal d’un art simple, accessible, qui charme d’abord, bouleverse ensuite. Comme toi, je crois que la science, le métier, l’érudition, la virtuosité technique doivent disparaître sous l’apparence d’un naturel aimable.Il...

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done

Society is indeed a contract. … It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

But this was just metal and glass once,” [Carter] said. “Raw materials. No form. No purpose. But Ben saw something in his mind. And the chemicals in his brain arranged to tell his hands to...

A midst deceit I found the truth;there in the rough I found a diamond.And from the moment we met,I think of no one elseToday I choose to be, to live and breathe;to dream, to weep,...

I don’t think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great – I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.

To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing arts (such as acting and dance) entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by...

Living is art.Breathing and heart beating is music.Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.Life is the most intense art of all.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You’d see Jesus on the cross, and you’d see a dude getting stabbed in the...

Art isn’t a product. It’s an experience

I love to draw—pencil, ink pen—I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England—you know those huge paintings?—I’m just amazed. You don’t think a painter could do something...

The scientist seeks laws; the historian, causes; the artist, freedom.

It’s not an artist’s job to change people or save the world.

How beautiful to touch another’s soul with a word, a gesture, a thought.

I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.

Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same shapes and contours, but it can never be used for the same purpose. Art teaches...

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the...

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.

Jamie came back to the apartment one night to find her spreading a viscous fluid onto a canvas. It was threaded wtih blood. “Good God,” he said. “What the hell is that?” Pia didn’t bother...

The picture is not a documentary, … It’s a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you’re trying to make something work. And the choices we...