The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that’s how I felt about drawing.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable permanence that paintings in museums do.There is a small crack in the lower...

Ah! my dear friend, to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us… a consolatory art for distressed hearts! There are as yet only a few who feel it...

The brightest sun of the art mostly rises on the dark horizons of the deep unhappiness.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

Creado por él, para él mismo, el arte ayudó al hombre a hablar sobre lo prohibido,, a vivir lo desconocido, a experimentar lo imposible.

God and other artists are always a little obscure…..

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone.

Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish and Priestley, its new era began. Medicine, pharmacy, and the...

The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen.

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its ‘collective’ manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each...

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The...

No art has ever really changed anything.

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

Art is a person’s private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

Chen is an indelible name in contemporary art, whether in the West or East. In his mind, art could heal the human spirit, and once healed, that spirit could implement the ideals of a harmonious...

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. Just as in...

The beautiful is always bizarre.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty…….. but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

POETRY HAS A PEPTIC PRESENCE. PRESENTLY.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Don’t make it new; make it whole.

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other...

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that...

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion...

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are...

Yeni resim gokyuzu kadar manasiz ve bos, fakat gokyuzu kadar derin ve zengindir. Maviligi seven bir adamin yeni resmi sevmemesine imkan yoktur. Fakat maviligi sevebilmek meseledir.

Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you’re prone to disaster fantasies, you may even find yourself caught in the middle, staring at your half-finished canvas and fearing...

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, ‘This is art, and you can’t do it.