[from Some words about ‘War and Peace’]For a historian considering the achievement of a certain aim, there are heroes; for the artist treating of a man’s relation to all sides of life there cannot and...

Fascism is fundamentally and at bottom an aesthetic conception, and . . . it is your function as creators of beautiful things to portray with the greatest efficacy the sublime beauty and inevitable reality of...

Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent,...

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art is the refreshing source of existence.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.

I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the...

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

Time is the art of God.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Hidden away behind the closed doors of aristocratic and bourgeois privilege, concealed under those ultra-respectable masks of black frock coat and veil, the green glow of corruption flickers into sight, steadies, and spreads everywhere, fostered...

Maro, you’ give me nothing while you live, but, after death, you cry, then, you’ll give; If thou art not indeed turned arrant ass, Thou know’st what I desire to come to pass

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

The world today doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

She gave life a meaning. She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and...

Art is LIFE.

You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

…I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you’re actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue …

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen...

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

It is quite possible–overwhelmingly probable, one might guess–that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul’s call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.

I will call up some key collectors before an art fair happens and say, ‘You should buy this,’ and without even seeing the piece, they’ll buy it. Twice it’s happened with this one collector –...

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first...

When you give me art—give me something that reaches inside of my core and twists, taking the very breath that sustains me away.Give me something that wakens me from my lethargy.Give me something that causes...

After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, ‘Painting is now played out.’ But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. ‘We were wrong,’ said...

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art. When you read some books they are fantastic, the writer touches something in you that...

Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf – almost like an evangelist.

What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work of art and that of a purely religious experience. Arts acts...

Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

And in fact the artist’s experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and...

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

The motivation of all artists is ‘Look at me, Mum’.

It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.

Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.

As I stated earlier, I do not believe there is anything inherently wrong with even the most overused elements of epic fantasy. Magic swords, dragons, destined heroes — even dark lords and ultimate evils can...

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears.

What is this film (Mirror) about?It is about a Man. No, not the particular man whose voice we hear from behind the screen, played by Innokentiy Smoktunovsky. It’s a film about you, your father, your...