I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if...

It’s impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness...

I believe that all of these studies, activities and outings are memorable in their own way, and that they do have subtle effects on our lives. On a deep level, what we see as art,...

He granted its due share to everything equally, drawing from everything only what was beautiful in it, and in the end left himself only the divine Raphael as a teacher. So a great poetic artist,...

This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It’s not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient...

No decent art ever came out of self-pity.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around...

can push you a bit to round off the edges of your art.

It’s good to vandalize one’s own work.

Collage is the twentieth century’s greatest innovation

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.

To erase the possibility of empathy is to erase the possibility of understanding.To erase the possibility of empathy is also to erase the possibility of art. Theater, fiction, horror stories, love stories. This is what...

If Botticelli were alive today he’d be working for Vogue.

Terre en vacance d’oeuvres d’art. Je méprise ceux qui ne savent reconnaître la beauté que transcrite déjà et toute interprétée. Le peuple arabe a ceci d’admirable que, son art, il le vit, il le chante...

People so often loose sight of the magic in life once they understand how it works.

The difference between a hit and a flop is called audience ❤ –

What a face this girl possessed!—Could I neither die then nor gaze at her face every day, I would need to recreate it through painting or sculpture, or through fatherhood, until a second such face...

Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity such as I cannot derive from other realms.

Don’t just be a consumer, be a creator. Somewhere inside you is a masterpiece waiting to be exposed.

Hay que dejar totalmente claro que las normas ordinarias del cine comercial y las producciones televisivas al uso corrompen al público de forma imperdonable, porque le roban cualquier posibilidad de contacto con el arte verdadero

They knew how to live with nature and get along with nature. They didn’t try too hard to be all men and no animal. That’s the mistake we made when Darwin showed up. We embraced...

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

I had spent many years living with a plain piece of canvas just right on my face as a headboard for my bed. As the years passed by, I watched it slowly transforming into a...

Now take a human body. Why wouldn’t you like to see a human body with a curling tail with a crest of ostrich feathers at the end? And with ears shaped like acanthus leaves? It...

Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art.

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can’t have both

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

È l’esperienza sensoriale di un altro mondo. Se non entrate in quel mondo, se non trattenete il respiro insieme ai personaggi, se non vi lasciate coinvolgere nel loro destino, non arriverete mai a indentificarvi con...

Life, raw life, the kind we lead every day, whether it leads us into the past or the future, has the curious property of not seeming real enough. We have a need, however illusive, for...

Over the years, I have been subjected to many indignities, all for the sake of Art. If I ever catch him, I’m going to kill the guy.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity – the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it’s a very new,...

Certainly a painting can be reductionistically described by its physical properties only: its shape, the paint, the design, and so forth. But every artwork that exists is both an individual thing, a whole unto itself,...

That’s creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

[Soetsu Yanagi’s] main criticism of individual craftsmen and modern artists is that they are overproud of their individualism. I think I am right in saying Yanagi’s belief was that the good artist of craftsman has...

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

Katie began to draw in the secrecy of her room, in anger at first, using her mother’s pencils and whatever paper she could find. Sometimes, she had to steal from Nader’s study to replenish her...

Look here, I often feel the same in more than one respect–not just in financial things, but in art itself, and in life in general. But do you think it’s anything exceptional? Don’t you think...

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art—a euphemism—tamed wilderness.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing...

Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity. I don’t see a different purpose for it now.

A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.