You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, ‘This is art, and you can’t do it.

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and...

Don’t be cool. Like everything.

Liebe Tochter, zum Geburtstag kriegst duHöchstens E-Mail mit Musik.An die harte Matratze schmiegst dudeine Wange. Kunst ist Krieg.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a...

Why not fall in love with an artist? Otherwise there are no letters, pictures, paintings and songs for you when you wake up.

That’s quite all right,” I said. Sfumato, that was what the painters called it; a blurring or elision of the lines, the kind Leonardo had used to give his Mona Lisa her beguiling flux.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn’t for *that*, what is it for?

Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren’t for art, I’d have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though….is very convincing.

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol.

The basket would never make her famous or end up in a museum. The best part of it was the making of it, sitting at the table weaving while outside the lake crashed into shore...

If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a...

Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or...

It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in...

Old art offers just as good a criticism of new art as new art offers of old.

The pressures were wrong. There was just enough money and not enough time.

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

Nothing is new anymore. We’re living in a post-everything society and “art” itself has become satire.

What wedo with them…I think that’s what makes us artists.

Berlin was charismatic in the roguish way of a love… It was a lover who was a little dangerous in ways that didn’t always show, keeping you a bit on edge, a bit in love...

Great fiction is the art of a soul.

Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I...

La simplicité est la complexité résolue.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

She never looked nice.She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer...

Life. Life is a show. It’s up to you how to make your own story, do your own show and how to live your show you are on. You choose who you need to meet,...

No theoretician, no writer on art, however interesting he or she might be, could be as interesting as Picasso. A good writer on art may give you an insight to Picasso, but, after all, Picasso...

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

A car crash could be considered art, and I’d like to install one in a museum. Helmets would be sold at the admission booth.

Who art thou, Art? Do you make art the way I make love—with a paintbrush?

Statues look like people, but people shouldn’t act like statues—you know, be set in their ways like stone. I make love like a sculptor paints, minus the wine, plus the grape juice. Suck me like...

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

All great art is almost never received well initially; don’t quit before the world opens its eyes.

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others – priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior – hold us to the path of history. They keep us...

Art should make you think and feel. It doesn’t have to match your couch.

Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.

We must not imitate that which we seek to create.

The only competition in art is the search for truth. No matter who gets there first, we all win.

Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it’s teaching you stuff, it’s not being wasted.

Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

He had a sense—honed by experience—that what he’d contrived might achieve something of the effect he wanted. That, Martinius had always said, was the best any man in this fallible world could expect. [p. 67]

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art…...

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Scientists know more and more and so science advances. Artists know less and less and so art advances.

All creative work begins as play. The more one plays, the better one works.