For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

Can you remember how you felt when you were communicating through your artwork? Not just the sense of completion, but the sense of rightness- the sense that you had brought to life something that could...

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support system...

You don’t make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you...

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little...

We don’t value craftsmanship anymore! All we value is ruthless efficiency, and I say we deny our own humanity that way! Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there’s no pleasure in creating things and no...

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.’

The act of tattooing one’s skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh.

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make up daily life — that’s where great work comes from, and...

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

Of course they won’t bloody remember, they’ll be dead.’ Then she called him a name in a dead language that translated, roughly, to ‘poop on a stick,’ but sounded more succinct, like this: ‘Of course...

It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.

tools” we truly possess in life.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk

Art isn’t life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It’s artifice. By definition.(“Talking In The Dark”)

I never look at a painting and ask, “Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?” It’s just a painting.

Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.

Art is magic, and art is powerful. Art saves lives- I really believe that. It gives us courage and compassion we might not have on our own.

Creativity is a fragile, delicate flower,which must be cautiously cared forand protected,from the harsh elementsof “human weather.

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief...

Gene [Siskel] often mentioned something François Truffaut once told him: the most beautiful sight in a movie theater is to walk down to the front, turn around, and look at the light from the screen...

my problem is that my body acts before my brain thinks… it sometimes brings me huge trouble, or also huge success. recently, my body and brain got come to an agreement. it may be far...

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It’s only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But...

The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do...

You can save many lives but the most courageous act is to save your authentic-self.

It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us.

God is not interested in your art, but your heart.

For your pleasure I’m creating a collection of erotic drawings so poorly rendered that I feel certain they will completely shake your belief in my understanding of human anatomy.

Notre religion, notre morale, notre philosophie, en sont que des formes de decadence de l humanite, le contre mouvement: l art

(…) photography opened up quite a little Pandora’s box, kiddies. (…) Once we no longer had to depend on drawing and painting to record our existence — once they became an option — they mutated...

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he...

We’re different, you and I. I am a Rorschach Test, and you, you are a butterfly. No, wait, you are a bat. Actually, you are the Galapagos Islands. Or perhaps you are a failed Pollack...

I wish art was like money in that the more I made, the more interest it developed and plentiful it became. Money makes money, and if art made art, there’s no prison in this country...

I make art and I make love, and I almost always do both at the same time. If the cops ask, I’ll tell them I was framed. Same goes for the museum.

There are some people about whom it is difficult to say anything which would describe them immediately and fully in their most typical and characteristic aspects; these are the people who are usually called “ordinary”...

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

If you look at each individual part of my face they look exactly like part of my face. Together it’s surreal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

Without poets, without artists… everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever....

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest.