I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be.

The tools are real. The viewer is real, you, the artist, is real and a part of everything you paint. You connect yourself to the viewer by sharing something that is inside of you that...

Let us embrace each other like we have the arms of two chairs. Let us dance like our legs are those of a table. We should do dinner sometime.

As always when he worked with this much concentration he began to feel a sense of introverting pressure. There was no way out once he was in, no genuine rest, no one to talk to...

Art happens all the time, everywhere. All we have to do is to keep our minds open.

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

A good artist should laugh often!

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

We zijn inferieure schepselen, net goed genoeg om te jongen. We hebben eierstokken, moeten ons er iedere maand bij neerleggen dat we bloeden, we zijn afhankelijk van de maan. Onze hersenen zijn minder ontwikkeld dan...

If I took a candy bar, ripped off the wrapper, ate the candy bar, and pinned the wrapper to the wall, is that art, performance art, both, or neither?

I shaved my pubic hair, glued it on a wig, and declared it art. No museum was willing to exhibit it. I should have sprinkled cheddar cheese on top and called it An Ode To...

Vidite, umetnik, to je “sumnjivoo lice”, maskiran čovek u sumraku, putnik sa lažnim pasošem. Lice pod maskom je divno, njegov rang je mnogo viši nego što u pasošu piše, ali šta to mari? Ljudi ne...

Try to be someone upon whom nothing is lost!

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

Yang indah memang bisa menghibur selama-lamanya, membubuhkan luka selama-lamanya, meskipun puisi dan benda seni bisa lenyap. Ia seakan-akan roh yang hadir dan pergi ketika kata dilupakan dan benda jadi aus.Tapi apa arti roh tanpa tubuh...

…that out of the quarrel with others we produce rhetoric, matter for the editorial page, while out of the quarrel with ourselves we create art.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature’s monotony. The sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed. The order which we find in nature, and which is only...

People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider – without question – as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching...

Writing isn’t a source of pain. It’s psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

It’s more mental than anything else. It is more than just the art of shooting.

Art is a kind of mining,” he said. “The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

Unexplained isn’t a word it’s a statement of what it meant.And i guess in the real world that definition doesn’t exists in a conceptual way.

I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter’s hand.

Cooking is not a science but an art, mistakes are okay, messes are fine—the pleasure is in the creating and the sharing of the result.

I can’t understand how people can have grown up in the eighties, amidst all this competitive spirit, gangster battles, hiphop – and still pretend that artists are ‘colleagues’ that should be bloody nice to each...

Once you’ve mastered starting and stopping, the rest is easy.

The artist is always dancing with death.

Art does not surpass nature but perfects it.

But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then—all the combinations made—they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures.

Art is communication.

But you’re an artist. you should know there’s more to a story than the part happening right now.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

It does not matter where one comes from, one can achieve even the greatest of things in life.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. Let it cool ever so slightly, and you are left, pen or brush in hand, with no inspiration at all....

Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

Ordinary people are products of their environment and fit in. Artists transcend their environment and stand out.

I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with....

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

Proportion is the heart of beauty.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn’t preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

Great art is anything that provokes a deep emotinal reaction at the time that you hear it and then you can’t get it out of your head. And then you go back and you experince...

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

This is a mission-driven thing for us. We’re advocates for country as a cultural art form, and this is an opportunity to create a higher profile for the museum, the music and the city.