‘Paint only what you see,’ his hero Millet had admonished.’Imagination is a burden to a painter,’ Auguste Renoir had told him. ‘Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.’Ah, but what they hadn’t said,...

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Kujua nini kitatokea kesho, au kesho kutwa, au kujua jinsi usaili wako wa kazi utakavyokuwa, au ni maswali gani utakayoulizwa kwenye mtihani kwa mfano, kutarahisisha sana maisha yetu. ‘Madirisha’ madogo katika kipindi cha saa za...

It is through vision that innovation is conceived;through will power it is then materialized.

It’s an art gallery open seven days a week, 24 hours a day and can be accessed from anywhere around the world.

Five state-of-the-art warships equipped with missiles came (to the area) on September 9,

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

It’s her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her…

Art is Alchemy.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer...

A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily,...

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, “I AM HERE”… To whom?.. To where?… Where am I going to…?

It doesn’t do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. – Then she touched her hand to her heart. – Beautiful things sometimes do.

Leadership is an art expressed by the demonstration of characters worthy of immitation, emulation and inspiration. It is neither a title nor a postion.

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired…Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time....

A women’s heart beat is very rapid; it jumps from love to hate, in seconds when in silence there is surely madness.

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

Life is art and art is life.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art – panem et Circen.

But at the end of the day, you can’t major in Making Stuff, so it was Art by default.

He couldn’t imagine using the word ‘rewarding’ about a work of art – for instance that such and such a book has given me so much, taught me so much, etc etc. – but thought...

What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.

It’s a landscape painting of Key West, from the perspective of an optimistic blind man.

I am a single drop of blood trying to mix in with billions of red paint splatters in this Pollack painting called life. I think the cops are trying to frame me.

As a sculptor, I prefer busts. As a lover of women, I prefer busts. And as a football enthusiast, I prefer Robert Griffin III.

Edsel is the artist in our family. Art is something I know nothing about.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it’s process.

…[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had...

Don’t wanna ever take your shoes off in coconut land. Never know when you’re gonna have to run.

Art does what reality cannot.

Now you stride alone through the Paris crowds Busses in bellowing herds roll by Anguish clutches your throat As if you would never again be loved In the old days you would have turned monk...

The first thousand are the hardest.

There are absolutely no rules in art

In the twentieth century, science has been everything and the arts almost nothing by comparison. As a result, many artists now pretend to be scientists. They try to imitate the strategies of science. Paintings that...

If you don’t have shadows, you’re not in the light.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

I recognized the great monument from the illustration in the copy of /The Jungle Book/ that my mother kept in the top drawer of my bedside table. When I went with Sophia to the Taj...

Industry in art is a necessity—not a virtue—and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone...

Co do szczegółów, to podobał mi się fragment na temat alkoholu. Z dłuższych cytatów, przytaczanych niestety bez podawania źródeł, wynika tutaj, że często nieodparta atrakcyjność alkoholu polega nie na fizycznej przyjemności, lecz na jego mistycznej...

The difference between email being identified as an art or a science is truly an individual decision based on the impact that the elements of the design mean when they are processed by the viewer.

To extract major truths from minor details is an artist’s job.

Ask very little but ask of everyone.

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that...

…to make art is to realize another’s sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people’s lives, to feel sad with and for a stranger.