How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

Once you master starting and stopping, the rest is easy.

Make your life beautiful, you’re the only one who can.

I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

Where there has been true science, art has always been its exponent.

Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious.

Art arises from life, inspires life and makes the impossible become possible.

I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say ‘Do whatever you want.’ Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it’s better if...

Embracing the LightCollected bits of truthShimmering sparksShards of lightMergeHealingRestoringBursting BrightRisingin divine ecstatic flame.

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord...

The art of sensuality encompassing the exploration and experiencing of all our senses… Those images are being born from and through living the moments of eating favorite chocolate cake with ice-cream, tranquil meditating, walking the...

This pause in time, within time … When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one’s own, one’s certainty...

El conocimiento pasa de la maestra a la estudiante mediante un proceso denominado mane. Aunque este término se traduce a menudo por “imitación”, el aprendizaje de la danza va más allá de la simple copia...

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Here is a lesson in creative writing.First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.And I realize some of you may be...

Before, I could only guess oh who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am.

I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn’t have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn’t exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly...

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is...

The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” ― Pablo Picasso

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.

He thought of trying to explain something he had recently noticed about himself: that if anyone insulted him, or one of his friends, he didn’t really mind–or not much, anyway. Whereas if anyone insulted a...

Do you write novels?” I said.”Novels, Lord no,” she said. “I can’t even stay married.

Wherever there is art, there is a staircase over there where you can ascend to the high places!

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well….

A ‘black’ man who draws a ‘black’ person with big lips is called observant. A ‘white’ man who does the same is called a racist.

This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it. It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its...

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

Art arises from loss. I wish this weren’t the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that...

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations – the gods write their signature in our entrails

Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.

My child has to be an artist,because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

I guess the fact that they made something they could be proud of is more important than any prize ever could be. I can understand that. The beauty of the clothing itself is in the...

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing...

Seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone as you start making your own stuff. I hang pictures of my favourite artists in my studio. They’re like friendly ghosts....

It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.

PAINTING, n. The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find everybody sitting around practicing how to do their signature’; and sure enough, there they were, some of them doing just that.

El artista no tiene ningún derecho moral para dejarse llevar a un abstracto nivel medio, para hacer que su obra sea más comprensible, más accesible. Esto no acarrearía otra cosa que la decadencia del arte,...

Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

practice makes better

As a kid I never knew what I wanted to be when I grow up, but the only thing I knew was that I wanted to create things. And then I wanted to be an...

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it...

I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I’m a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

I hate when art becomes a religion. I feel the opposite. When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.” – Woody Allen

Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.