working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art – and good business is the best art.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is…like a life without pictures.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all...

You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life– a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

Imagination is Everything!

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the relative permanence of paint, words were temporal. You uttered them and they evanesced,...

The Painting is not shit,’ said Lucien.’I know,’ said Henri. ‘That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along...

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that’s a chair, that’s a table, and yet at the same time, It’s a miracle, it’s...

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is this play of the contradictory that allows one to think the truth that...

We…believe that art is religious, because it is one of man’s highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,’ he said, ‘all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw...

done,” and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane...

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.

The more I drive myself into the depth of my inside, the more things come up to my vision, visibly or invisibly… I even do not know if I am seeing them with my eye...

Yet each, in itself—this was the uncanny, the anti-organic, the life-denying character of them all—each of them was absolutely symmetrical, icily regular in form. They were too regular, as substance adapted to life never was...

Success is not in the possession of multitudes of dreams; it is in the art of processing dreams into multiple realities!

We must change life,’ the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of...

Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows.

I have witness the stars brighterthan a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write ‘until death do us part.

The mountains are where God proves He’s better than Michelangelo at sculpting.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. The best songs are the ones that make you feel...

He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it’s … makin’ ART.

If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world’s population, like mental mayonnaise, we’d have more art, less war, and higher cholesterol.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

My favorite color on canvas is nudity.

I had a dream about you. You were trying to perfect the art of sexual intercourse, and I offered you the use of one of my statues to practice on. Artists have to stick together,...

Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you’re standing in a crowded room?

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death,...

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility….

When my words are concealedWith lies and disguises, truth and beyondInsecurities in the veil of trustBetrayal in bounds of liesIt’s just the charm of words darlingGiving the illusion of happiness inside misery

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes...

The painting has a life of its own