You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the museum gift shop sees something else entirely, and that’s not even to...

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

The public has a right to artThe public is being ignored by most contemporary artists….Art is for everybody….I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with...

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off – or pimp themselves out – as art....

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around.

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the...

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as...

Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness and Light, Solidity and Color, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.

I’m tired of feeling like I’m fucking crazy.I’m tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes.

[Picasso] loved…women for the sexual, carnivorous impulses they aroused in him. Mixing blood and sperm, he exalted women in his paintings, imposed his violence on them, and sentenced them to death once he felt their...

But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find...

Every artist is a little bit of a god…

Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the...

When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn’t have mentors. We didn’t have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time,...

Yes, but the artist?” said Nigel almost fiercely. “He’s different, you know he is. He’s driven by some compulsion: if he can’t do what he knows he has to do with his life he might...

Writing is like painting. You sketch it, add colour, add depth and detail. You give it a final layer and then hang it proudly.

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.

God is beautiful. His beauty demands a response that is shaped that beauty, and that is art.

When you step from the wings onto the stage you go from total blackness to a blinding hot glare. After a moment you adjust, but there is that moment. like being inside lightning.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.

Cooking is like playing a violin. The bow is a tool used to play, as is the knives and other tools you use to prepare. (a chef’s knife is even held in the same manner)...

I criticize by creation, not by finding fault

He disregarded everything, he gave everything to art. He tirelessly visited galleries, spent whole hours standing before the works of great masters, grasped and pursued a wondrous brush. He never finished anything without testing himself...

This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it’s place is a work extremely troublesome.

Art is whatever you can get away with.

I never drew a picture of anything that was before me but always from fancy, a sure sign of the absence of artistic eyesight; and I illustrated my lack of real feeling for art by...

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid....

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

From the point forward, the camera has been in my hand up until today, … From studying art photography at Southern University, I’ve gone from color, to black and white, and now gradually to digital.

To talk of a modern work of art enduring is sillier than talking of the eternal values of Standard Oil.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Some seeksolace inwhiskey,I drown mysorrowsin ink.

There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to alter. In the past, the densest or richest location of baptised art has...

General sentiment, had a poll been taken, was that eventually the negative media would die down, Egypt’s head of antiquities would return to Cairo, and St. Louis would enjoy her treasure. But treasures sometimes have...

The material’s out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

The more details, depth and thought you put into your ideas the more valuable they become.

ELOQUENCE, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

Thou art a cat, and rat, and a coward to boot.

…We lost our faith and went around wondering what life was for. If art was no more than a frustrated out-flinging of desire, if religion was no more than self-delusion, what good was life? Faith...

It’s hard for me to talk about love,’ she said. ‘I think movies are the way I do that.