A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

As we awaken we move from a realm of confusion to one of certainty and Peace.

unnameable,” but there’s a certain kind of balance achieved in certain works of art that feels like satiety, a place to rest, and there are others that are like a tear in the cosmos, that...

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.

All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can […] be closed with a shout of recognition.

It’s not like a Sundance Film Festival, … Certainly it’s more about the craft and celebrating the actual art of filmmaking, not necessarily a business-type situation.

The artist is a collector of things imaginary or real. He accumulates things with the same enthusiasm that a little boy stuffs his pockets. The scrap heap and the museum are embraced with equal curiosity....

Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.

The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.Piet MondrianThe Artist’s Way A Spiritual Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron

For me, art that’s alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine. […]To drive children into labour is to slaughter artists, to scour deathly all wonder, the flickering dart of imagination eager as...

I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams....

True ‘we travel the world over and over to find the authentic-self, we forget that we carry it within. Simply Pause.

The great city seemed to weigh upon me, as though it were crushing me under its heap of brick and stone. Gray, drizzly skies, congested streets, the soot-belching boats and barges chugging up and down...

Creativity takes courage.

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature–the qualities of space and time–in new...

Here in this supreme menace of the will, there approaches aredeeming, healing, enchantress—art. She alone can turn thesethoughts of repulsion at the horror and absurdity of existence intoideas compatible with life: these are the sublime—the...

When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.

I am for an art that imitates the human, that is comic, if necessary, or violent, or whatever is necessary. I am for an art that takes its form from the lines of life itself,...

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Artists have to have a good eye. And to be great, I’d recommend having two.

I’m stoic like a statue of Stonewall Jackson. I’d make a great U.S. President, but I’d make an even better chiseled piece of marble—and that’s what makes me such an amazing lover.

Sales is the art of giving people what they don’t know they want, when they don’t think they’ll need it, at a price they don’t think they can afford.

Photography is essentially an act of recognition by street photographers, not an act of invention. Photographers might respond to an old man’s face, or an Arbus freak, or the way light hits a building—and then...

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

Language is the alchemy of transforming a thought into a word, and the word into a new reality.

If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.

Draw without mercy.

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That’s what can move the world....

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar’s fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

Hearing is one of the body’s five senses. But listening is an art.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.

Art is unpredictable.

Culture is local; art, universal.

Sometimes the reason offered for seeking aesthetic excellence in the music of the church is that thereby one pleases God. I think that is true. But not because we know what music God enjoys– though...

A piece of art, when completed, encapsulates its own reality. As its architect, the artist’s task is to craft it well enough that the reader believes in its existence and is willing to enter, explore,...

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the child, Jesus. But, the orthodox painter...

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something — writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a secret garden; if at four in the morning the right word comes to...

The GatheringAccording to the Kabbalah, in the beginning everything was God. When God contracted to make room for creation, spiritual energy filled the void. The energy poured into vessels which strained to hold the great...

What follows is the sum and substance of a remarkable year in a great artist’s life—Alexander Wainwright. He was at the pinnacle of his career when his art took a strange turn and I began...

Hey, Meg,” she said without preamble. I need you to write a letter of recommendation for me. I’m applying for grad school.”Meghann screamed into the phone. “Oh, my God! I’m so proud of you. I’m...

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