The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and...

I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

Be game–take a chance–don’t hide behind veils and veils of discretion… Go forward with what you have to say, expressing things as you see them. You are new evidence, fresh and young. Your work, the...

Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece...

{Miller, who was president of American Federation of Musicians, had this to say about Robert Ingersoll at his funeral}On behalf of 15,000 professional musicians, comprising the American Federation of Musicians, permit me to extend to...

yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* …. who...

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

To be honest, our budget was too limited to have state of the art Western computer graphics. As I am a still student in computer graphics, I think I could do a better job in...

Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of...

more to be a human being with

Take’th my temple and cut it into little stars, placed carefully to the face of heaven and the world will shine.

One thing I’ve learned about art is that, it’s not perfect. It doesn’t have to be a flawless masterpiece. I’m not perfect, we’re not perfect… but right here, right now… is perfect. It’s a masterpiece.

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the...

Love is wind for the soul

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

We’re not so different, you and I. Sure, we may have different religious beliefs, political outlooks, sexual orientations, economic viewpoints, and artistic/literary/culinary tastes, but deep down we both want the same thing: To be loved...

Through His Word we fall in love with Him more, and because of this we love more.

We create our own reality. The blessing (or problem) with this is that when one creates one’s own reality, one must live it! Are you living a blessing or is it a curse?

One of the side effects of Viagra is blurred vision. Sounds great! When I’m taking a pill to pop a stiffy, how great is it that any woman I look at has blurred features and...

Batman’s cape would make a great canvas for a cave painting.

A blank canvas is so abstract that only imagination can fill it. But wait! Don’t hang it on the wall like that. It’s upside down.

I think it’s the greatest form of art, to create a residential building, … We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a beautiful way....

The Ilhalmiut do not fill canvases with their paintings, or inscribe figures on rocks, or carve figurines in clay or in stone, because in the lives of the People there is no room for the...

Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.

understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you...

It might feel like the end of the world–but it’s the beginning of your art.

You, the artistic renderer interpreter, must decide what U think about these coniptions.

Perfection in art is a crime against humanity. Perfect humanity in crime is art

Resmin ilk konusu hayvanlardı. Ve en baştan başlayıp Sümer, Asur, Mısır ve ilk dönem Yunan resminde devam eden bir çizgide, bu hayvanların tasvirleri olağanüstü derecede hakikidir. İnsan gövdesinin tasvirinde eşdeğer bir ‘gerçek-gibi’liğe ulaşılması için binyılların...

An artist’s concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

But he did not believe ordinary citizens created art. True art was anomalous; it was a rare mutation. It didn’t happen simply because one willed it so. He thought it an utter and exasperating waste...

Let them Teach,Let them learn,let them pray,for the world is theirs.

The world is getting smaller and the art world is becoming more global. And although people go between the U.S. and Europe all the time, this is still primarily an American place.

The challenge is quite formidable if you spell it out explicitly: artists must look at a three-dimensional scene with their two-dimensional retinas and then generate a two-dimensional painting that appears three-dimensional to viewers who look...

I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago,” I said at once. “Elvii?” Marcone inquired.”The plural would be Elvises, I guess,” I said. “But if I say that too often,...

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

It is not knowledge that makes an artist

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole...

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The...

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If...

Whether it’s trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable–all communication is rhetoric in action.

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are affected in the first place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simplified, being reduced to four andsoon...

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art — and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.