I’m stoic like a statue of Stonewall Jackson. I’d make a great U.S. President, but I’d make an even better chiseled piece of marble—and that’s what makes me such an amazing lover.

Sales is the art of giving people what they don’t know they want, when they don’t think they’ll need it, at a price they don’t think they can afford.

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then...

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.

Draw without mercy.

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That’s what can move the world....

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar’s fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.

Art is unpredictable.

Culture is local; art, universal.

Sometimes the reason offered for seeking aesthetic excellence in the music of the church is that thereby one pleases God. I think that is true. But not because we know what music God enjoys– though...

A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist’s task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore,...

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter...

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something — writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to...

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to make room for creation, spiritual energy filled the void. The energy poured into vessels which strained to hold the great...

What follows is the sum and substance of a remarkable year in a great artist’s life—Alexander Wainwright. He was at the pinnacle of his career when his art took a strange turn and I began...

Hey, Meg,” she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I’m applying for grad school.”Meghann screamed into the phone. “Oh, my God! I’m so proud of you. I’m...

poetry is when a natural melancholy what keep singing a melody

The painter is not simply someone who looks and who sees. Above all, the artist is someone who exposes a personal vision by rendering it visible. The painter shows or allows the seeing of “something”...

In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer...

Art is my Life.

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.

It’s not mural art. This is someone trying to sell a product. This is commercialism. You have a multi-conglomerate operation coming into the city and breaking our laws.

We are building a state-of-the-art business school to bring High Point University’s most popular major to a new level, … We are eternally grateful for the generosity of our friend, Phil Phillips, whose name we...

Picasso.” He whispers like a priest. “Picasso. Who saw the truth. Who painted the truth, moulded it, ripped from the earth with two angry hands.

Artists and artisans both demonstrate with perfect clarity that a person is least able to appropriate for himself those things which are most peculiarly his. His works leave him as birds do the best in...

The source of our art then is not in the achievements of other artists in other days and lands, although it has learned a great deal from these, our art is founded on a long...

When the world asks “what was it like?” Only the photographer can say “See!

Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

…What I depend on is a vigorous audience that can discover sweetness and light, beauty and truth, beyond the ability of the artist, on his own, to create them.

Artists are often the barometers of society.

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Imagination creates reality.

The ultimate message of this book, though, is not that should strive for publication, but that you should become devoted to the craft of writing, for its own sake. Ask yourself what you would do...

Remember when we didn’t know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form, when light and dark were not necessary for the picture to...

Trying to express yourself is more powerful than trying to be the best.

Look, I don’t see why bad artists – I mean artists who are obviously incompetent… – why they should be presented hypocritically as good artists just because they’re supposed to be advancing the frontiers of...

Why Dream?Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of...

A few people can understand the art, others just look at it and walk away. So what! Not all heads are packed with brain, some of them are accommodating emptiness.