The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know...

The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the...

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often...

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak.

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery

You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.

An author’s extraliterary utterance (blunt information), prenovel or postnovel, may infiltrate journalism; it cannot touch the novel itself. Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first,...

And what does he feel?””He feels uneasy. A little afaid. Angry. Oddly, a hint of pride.””Good,” Henry said. “ANd where are you?””Backstage.”Henry shook his head gravely. “THere’s no such thing as backstage. The play begins,...

There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques...

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

I like “Julie Gold’s song “From a Distance”. Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer’s eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for...

I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands, but he didn’t even flush!

I made art out of all the phone numbers on napkins I’ve had over the years. So it was just one napkin, and I wiped my mouth with it after I was done.

Making art can be a mystical, spiritual experience. Sort of like golfing on water, which I haven’t done, because I’m more Michael Phelps and less Michael Phelps.

By challenging the notion of what art is, Duchamp became a great artist. Also, Duchamp was a champion of Men’s Bathroom Attendants everywhere.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

The music of hers that we’re doing is very simple, almost like folk songs, definitely not high art. She wrote more sophisticated things, including an opera, but 90 percent of her music was destroyed in...

I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed that he ever realised how the roof of the Sistine Chapel might be...

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Don’t ask me what it means; ask me what it felt.

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.

As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-balancing of economic interests, what room will there be for virtue? When Nature has been so subjugated that she has lost...

As a working definition of art, I lean toward Tolstoy’s: “Art is a human activity having for it’s purpose the transmission to other of the highest and best feelings to which mankind has risen.” It...

…the line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn’t matter if it’s been through the Xerox machine a hundred times.

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Art provides us with clues about how to live our lives more fully…about how creating, collecting, and even just appreciating art can make daily living a masterpiece.

Drug-pushers, God-pushers, sex-pushers, art-pushers-all kinds of pushers.

With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification....

Oh, glorious Art!” thus mused the enthusiastic painter, as he trod the street. “Thou art the image of the Creator’s own. The innumerable forms that wander in nothingness start into being at thy beck. The...

Teaching is a sacred art. This is why the noblest druid is not the one who conjures fires and smoke but the one who brings the news and passes on the histories. The teacher, the...

I’m making art.Terra

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world – the extent to which...

She’s the first lady who has mastered the art of kimono making and she donated about forty pieces to Koji, and he is expressing it into the European draping. It’s wrapping.

All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.

And I bet it’s harder than people think, isn’t it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that’s when you have to rise to the...

It’s just amazing what he does because he’s not throwing 94, 93 mph. You watch Greg Maddux, that’s an art.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Bridges are built by words, thoughts, feelings and deeds. Art and love bring them all together…

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show...

You see these fish carved finely in relief by Phidian art? Add water; they will swim

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so.

This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values….

Colors are light’s suffering and joy