Chen is an indelible name in contemporary art, whether in the West or East. In his mind, art could heal the human spirit, and once healed, that spirit could implement the ideals of a harmonious...

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. Just as in...

The beautiful is always bizarre.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty…….. but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

POETRY HAS A PEPTIC PRESENCE. PRESENTLY.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

Don’t make it new; make it whole.

The Nobel Prize is the best thing that can happen to a writer in terms of how it affects your contracts, the publishers, and the seriousness with which your work is taken. On the other...

An artist is someone who produces things that people don’t need to have but that he – for some reason – thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that...

The whole art of teaching is the only art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion...

One should engage in all sorts of breadless arts.

I think it takes much greater courage to create things to be gone than to create things that will remain

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

Research has a dirty name, … because people think you can’t research art. One of the common fallacies is if a song doesn’t research well, it won’t get on, but it doesn’t happen like that....

There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist’s career.

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me.

Yet I am incapable of writing the only kind of novel which interests me: a book powered with an intellectual or moral passion strong enough to create order, to create a new way of looking...

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don’t look at it as an art form. They think it’s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

Art has no rules. That’s what makes it art.

Color has got me. I no longer need to chase after it. It has got me for ever. I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour.

Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like...

If I didn’t start painting, I would have raised chickens.

priestly” aims, it presupposes and confirms the existence of a relatively passive, never fully initiated, voyeuristic laity which is regularly convoked to watch, listen, read, or hear — and then sent away.

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts.

It’s the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they’re what keeps life from being meaningless.

Every time I create something, whether an idea or a work of art, initially, its supposed completion seems absolutely perfect to me. However the more I think about it, stare it down, the more it...

There is no art without contemplation.

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may...

If we are cultivating fruit in an orchard, we wish that particular fruit to grow in its own way; we give it the soil it needs, the amount of moisture, the amount of care, but...

I’m an artist; I do not destroy, but create scars. And above that, I am an inventor of new ways to create them.

If I were you I’d put that away. See you’re just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you’ll be okay.

…hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HIV – I...

Pour qu’un produit majeur de l’esprit soit capable d’avoir aussitôt un effet vaste et profond, il faut qu’une affinité secrète, qu’un accord même existe entre le destin personnel de son auteur et celui, général, de...

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the “picture” end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is...

Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created.

There is no Art made without power, and there is no reason for Art to be made except for power.

Surviving a stupor of madness,drunk silence ‘have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell.