I know that life is busy and hard and that there’s crushing pressure to just settle down and get a real job and khaki pants and a haircut. But don’t. Please don’t. Please keep believing...

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

Remember that your fans are your lifeblood. See that you know who they are, and give them a reason to follow you. Be sure to thank them, often, for caring enough to support you. They’re...

… if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually become places to see. To see through to God. That that which tears...

Art has no immediate future because all art is collective and there is no more collective life(there are only dead collections of people), and also because of this breaking of the true pact between the...

Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man’s original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.

Creativity is a gift each one of us is born with, irrespective of our backgrounds and entitlement of culture, The challenge is to hold onto this gift as we go through life. To nurture it....

The art world will never be the same in the way it deals with Nazi-confiscated art.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist’s] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves...

[T]here’s a thin line separating the delicate from the bloodless, in art as in food.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Only a spirit of artistic sincerity can console the souls of humankind.

The burden God places on each of us is to become who we are meant to be. We are most fully ourselves when Christ most fully lives in us and through us. The mother shines...

Form follows emotion

Contemporary’ was in those days [1953] synonymous with ‘modern’ as it had not been before and is not now [1977].

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

SPOILER ALERT: EVERYONE FALLS IN LOVE & DIES!

. . . That’s what my work is about, the collapse of everything, of meaning, of language, of values, of art, disorder and dislocation wherever you look, entropy drowning everything in sight . . ....

The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don’t...

Everything I’ve ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if...

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

Music resembles poetry, in eachAre nameless graces which no methods teach,And which a master hand alone can reach.

…and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

Life and art are nothing but associations of ideas and sorrows that nourish our illusory quest for the Holy Grail of human existence. It’s a mystery!

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no matter how large or how small— is a direct expression of a man’s personality, and bears the...

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

An observant friend will recognize the signs of the rise of grief: eyes that easily well with tears, a smile that is difficult to sustain, a tendency to withdraw. And ultimately, perhaps we each need...

Make your lives a masterpiece, you only get one canvas.

This is the essence of Rembrandt’s advice to Van Hoogstraten: The authentic craft develops naturally from one’s own experience. So, it seems reasonable to suggest that the search should not be for the lost secrets,...

Art is a relection of the mind and a vision of the heart.

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

One eye sees, the other feels.

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement—the art of...

The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.

True freedom only exists in art.The problem is you have to be incredibly good.No,I am putting it wrong:You don’t so much have to be outstanding,what you really need are connections,if you don’t want to be...

It’s a lost art in our society to help others to this extent. Our pilots use their own planes and fuel to serve those with certain (conditions).

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone, besmeared with sluttish time.When wasteful war shall statues overturnAnd broils roots out the...

A hundred francs! Oh, dear me! It is worth millions of francs, my child. But my — dealer — here tells me that in fact a picture is worth only what someone will give for...

The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

When there’s music in your soul, there’s soul in your music.

The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.

Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

If somebody’s getting depressed in life, I would say, “Look at me’. I’ve got here believing in me. Sometimes, things do not go as you expected and you could feel as if you were ruining...

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the...