What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?

Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change...

There is only one thing that matters in art-to express one’s individuality.

Obsession is more valuable to an artist than knowledge.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

Art Is One if Life’s Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do...

But the young sapper was already on his back, the rifle aimed, his eye almost brushing the beards of Noah and Abraham and the variety of demons until he reached the great face and was...

I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall always goes to my head. It is a sensation something between that...

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren’t pretty or delightful, but they were magical, […] They called...

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are...

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

All in all, 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...

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

When you read the art,

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken...

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

One day people will come back. they won’t be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You’ll see. One day, this will be a...

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

Art is not in some far-off place.

God made man mortal and to console this transitory creature He gave him an immortal toy called Art!

The male frog, in mating season,” said Crake, “makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog,...

…a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.

I have treated many artists. There are among them many neurotics, so many that one finally comes to believe that one cannot be an artist without being neurotic. Again I found in them that inner...

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

I’m lucky enough to be able to make films and so I don’t need a psychiatrist. I can sort out my fears and all those things with my work. That’s an enormous privilege. That’s the...

Only after seeing the winter, do you comprehend the richness of summer. This was a big theme, and one I could confidently do: the infinite variety of nature.

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul.Another way...

Art is to see beauty in everything you see everyday.

Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un réel futur qui ne vaille guère mieux. Chaque minute pleine porte en elle-même la...

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I...

You can’t make a fan of everyone. Stay true to your story, characters, music, art or whatever it is you do and fuck everyone else who doesn’t like it. Life isn’t perfect.

Art reveals the transitory as an absolute; & as the transitory existence is perpetuated through the centuries, art too, through the centuries, must perpetuate this never-to-be-finished revelation. Thus, the constructive activities of man tale a...

When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.

Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.

My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, science encompassed and completed life or whether there was still something in the distance...

Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going...

… 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.