The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain. That is what should have been talked about in this assembly, and no...

Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It’s like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way.

Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God...

Don’t keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it....

The art world will never be the same in the way it deals with Nazi-confiscated art.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist’s] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves...

[T]here’s a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines...

Form follows emotion

Contemporary’ was in those days [1953] synonymous with ‘modern’ as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES!

The lonesome and desperate kids out there, that pain will translate to magic perhaps.

If art can never offer levity, then I’ll have none of it!

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn’t matter to me what your position is. You’ve got to keep asserting the...

Beauty isn’t what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It’s a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It’s realizing the goodness of things, it’s leaving...

Writers remember everything…especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent...

You don’t take a photograph, you make it.

Art is what we call…the thing an artist does.It’s not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art,...

I couldn’t decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people–including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and...

Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook…..

There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.

Can anyone capable of genuinely appreciating Mozart and Mizoguchi possibly say that he is not, in that respect, immeasurably better off than someone whose cultural horizon is limited to bingo and The Black and White...

I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable.

I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.

Mi čitamo knjige zato da bismo čitanjem proširili granice svog ličnog iskustva. Ako nam knjiga u tom pogledu ne daje apsolutno ništa, nijednog novog fakta, nijednog samostalnog pogleda, nijene originalne ideje, ako ničim ne pokreće...

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

We want the type of artist who creates art for art’s sake. Someone who creates art for themselves, not necessarily to make money.

Life is a work of art, and what you see depends on your perspective.

Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.

All great art has madness, and quite a lot of bad art has it, too.

Art is just an expression. An expression isn’t the same as an act, as much as it sometimes feels that way.

Art is a kind of magic. Creativity is mysterious, even to artists, who might be able to name their inspiration but can’t always explain how their influences and experiences came together to create this new...

Transcendental artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum… the way of the shaman. The presence of glyphs speaks a universal language of the...

Art is the giving by each man of his evidence to the world. Those who wish to give, love to give, discover the pleasure of giving. Those who give are tremendously strong.

Quien quiera hacer de Rembrandt un pensador, un rebelde enfrentado a su época, al encontrarse ante estas obras maestras deberá admitir que la verdad más convincente para definirlo es la furia creadora, una necesidad constante...

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens...

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

A work is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about what it is about.

It seems an odd idea to my students that poetry, like all art, leads us away from itself, back to the world in which we live. It furnishes the vision. It shows with intense clarity...

After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s theory of relativity – now that is a work of art! Einstein was more of an artist in...