Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Fine art refers to an accomplished or advanced skill being used to testify and reveal the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the creator. There is no art more exquisite than the work of the Master...

Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social...

Here is the world. Don’t be afraid for wonderful and terrible things will happen. Simply remember to breath.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

But real life is not art.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

It’s true. The storms won’t last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.

El artista es hijo de sus tiempos, pero desdichado de él si, a la vez, es su alumno o incluso su favorito.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Growing up, the only class I didn’t doodle in was Art class, because there I’d get to spend the whole time drawing.

My hand inside a glove is like a painting in a frame, and should be insured as such. The things my hand makes have immense value, so how much more valuable is the thing that...

I am the Fruit Basket of Love. You should do a painting of how I feel.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.

Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality of the behaviorist notwithstanding). A friend of mine, a philosopher of esthetics, defines art as: anything that people treat as art. So...

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

How do you even know I’m someone you’ll want to remember? We’ve only seen each other once before.'(Amber)’Have you ever looked at a painting and known you had something in common with it? Have you...

I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It’s an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.

You must not think that feeling is everything. . . . Art is nothing without form.

Art has one purpose, that is to leave you changed. Love has one purpose, that is to create art.

Life is something that no one can teach you,You have to learn it.

The way Starr felt in church, that’s how I felt at the art museum, both safe and elevated.

…to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement. Once created, the creature was separate from the creator, and needed no seconding to fully exist.

There is nothing as beautiful as a crooked streetlight or a ripped paper.There lies no beauty in being what someone designed you to be.

Every successful work of art is a collaboration between the known and the unknown.

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

There are no mistakes in art.

FV: Hasn’t all art, in a way, submitted to words – reduced itself to the literary…admitted its failure through all the catalogues and criticism, monographs and manifestos —ML: Explanations? FV: Exactly. All the artistry, now,...

When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

The artist can not serve his struggle for freedom unless he subjectively assimilates the social content, unless he feels in his very nerves its meaning and drama and freely seeks to give his own inner...

We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Hazel blue anemone in a little SeaSide cave…drawing currents from the sea turquoise blue on sparkling waves. In ocean dreams, the poet waits by his grotto, passing days. Rhyming verse, his mind creates where his...

actually life is fine art.it is fun when we make it as serious art.we don’t get color to color it.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if...

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

My art became very public.

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as...

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Producing works of art doesn’t often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics or chemistry, does. So why is it that in universities writing...

He said, one has to learn that painting well – in the academic and technical sense – comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you’ve got that ability. So have thousands.