… an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

The taste of Scotch, though Guy didn’t much care for it, was pleasant because it reminded him of Anne. She drank Scotch, when she drank. It was like her, golden, full of light, made with...

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular...

Creativity is an act of defiance.

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

I don’t get writers block. I get writer has too many ideas and doesn’t know which one to start next, block.

…failure with clay was more complete and more spectacular than with other forms of art. You are subject to the elements… Any one of the old four – earth, air, fire, water – can betray...

SOME PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE. GET USED TO IT. QUESTION MARK.

Sometimes it is better not to talk about art by using the word “art”. If we just act with awareness and integrity, our art will flower, and we don’t have to talk about it at...

My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper...

I am really Chloe Anthony Wofford. That’s who I am. I have been writing under this other person’s name. I write some things now as Chloe Wofford, private things. I regret having called myself Toni...

I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that...

But why didn’t you just ask me?” I set down my fork and glare at her. “Because you were sleeping,” She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay.”I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn’t intended...

I do write about men now and then, but I mostly write about women because that’s the work I like best. When I became a feminist, I realized that somebody had to write all about...

Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that’s the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.

My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.

As if Art is the What, not the How!

In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were “fine” or “industrial” or “minor”. It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the...

You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in...

While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which I had to paint a series of murals about the industries of the...

Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.

All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Art does not reproduce what we see. It makes us see.

Inking is meditation in liquid form…

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story–if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other...

Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.

Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.

As I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I’ll steal the light of day away to keep building at speeds hypersonic.

Those who express even a little of themselves never become old-fashioned.

No art is possible without a dance with death.

Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let’s keep it in perspective.

When you paint late at night, drinking beer or wine or both, you gotta be very careful to watch what you are doing…

What did one see if one looked in any depth into the world of this writer’s fiction? Elegant self-control concealing from the world’s eyes until the very last moment a state of inner disintegration and...

Art is literacy of the heart.

Typical artist,’ said Granny. ‘He just painted the showy stuff in the front… And what about these cherubs? We’re not going to get them too, are we? I don’t like to see little babies flying...

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That’s what are can do.

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify–capriciously–their urge for immortality. The temples are built and brought down around him, continuously and contiguously, from Troy to the fields of Flanders. If there is...

Tout s’achète : l’amour, l’art, la planète Terre, vous, moi.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we’re artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn’t...

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.