I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Art is not eternal.

DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one’s country.

An artist must either give up art or develop.

There is music in my heart. There is art in my heart and there is majesty in my heart, because there is love in my heart!

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn’t wait for no man, and that’s why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That’s the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they...

personally” enraptured). (Dziennik, 1956, XX, Wtorek I)

His music gave no lesser joy than a vacation. Creativity in his music and its success stood out as an example to all kinds of artists, in the lectures of business speakers, engineers, and to...

No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host.

I was reminded of a painter friend who had started her career by depicting scenes from life, mainly deserted rooms, abandoned houses and discarded photographs of women. Gradually, her work became more abstract, and in...

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn’t there...

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on … defeat and despair … as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few preparedto learn to draw?

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s

Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and...

Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music...

Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do… Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art...

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

It’s as though she was able to convert her rage to live under this verdict of HIV into an art that was actually equal to it.

I don’t want to think too much about art, you see. I don’t want to attend symposia, listen to papers, or discuss it at cocktail parties … What I want to do is clutch my...

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.

Art changes posture and posture changes innocent bystanders.

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?]Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are...

Yeni resim gokyuzu kadar manasiz ve bos, fakat gokyuzu kadar derin ve zengindir. Maviligi seven bir adamin yeni resmi sevmemesine imkan yoktur. Fakat maviligi sevebilmek meseledir.

Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you’re prone to disaster fantasies, you may even find yourself caught in the middle, staring at your half-finished canvas and fearing...

You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, ‘This is art, and you can’t do it.

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and...

Don’t be cool. Like everything.

Liebe Tochter, zum Geburtstag kriegst duHöchstens E-Mail mit Musik.An die harte Matratze schmiegst dudeine Wange. Kunst ist Krieg.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a...

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

That’s quite all right,” I said. Sfumato, that was what the painters called it; a blurring or elision of the lines, the kind Leonardo had used to give his Mona Lisa her beguiling flux.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn’t for *that*, what is it for?

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren’t for art, I’d have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though….is very convincing.

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of it, sitting at the table weaving while outside the lake crashed into shore...

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a...

Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in...

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

Nothing is new anymore. We’re living in a post-everything society and “art” itself has become satire.

What wedo with them…I think that’s what makes us artists.

Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love… It was a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn’t always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love...