Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison...

I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to...

I doubt not that in due time, when the arts are brought to perfection, some means will be found to give a sound head to a man who has none at all

It’s a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of...

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Smatrao sam da je jedina ispravna pozicija umetnika, pozicija izdajnika. Umetnik je onaj čiji smeh za pretke i tradiciju porugom se ori. Umetnost mora da stremi razlici, Drugom.

Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn’t get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the...

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception… as film is able to do today… And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons,...

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

In short, it became possible – never easy, but possible – in the poet Auden’s phrase to find the mortal world enough.

My goal is to draw a line with some ‘flavor’ to it.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you will be signing your right to freedom of expression, all artistic credibility, all of your free time and your soul over to us. Do you agree?”I grasped...

…A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.

I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.

Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist;...

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid, and damaging idea. You don’t have to be unscientific to make beautiful art,...

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art...

…I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few…

The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.

NO MUSE IS GOOD MUSETo be an Artist you need talent, as well as a wifewho washes the socks and the children,and returns phone calls and library books and types.In other words, the reason there...

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it’s just more pretentious.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without ascending it, the work would have been permitted.

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become...

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. And I shall tell you why. When we read...

The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through. You have to make up your mind to be alone in many ways. We like...

The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.

Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the...

I suddenly knew that religion, God – something beyond everyday life – was there to be found, provided one is really willing. And I saw that though what I felt in the church was only...

This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which you have the insight, sensitivity, and —...

Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it.

We paint from within outward – if we force our vision on the world it calls us great painters; if we don’t it ignores us; but we are the same. We don’t attach any meaning...

In God’s world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s...