They say pantomime’s a lost art. It’s never been a lost art and never will be, because it’s too natural to do.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art’s form.

Life is like butter – when things cool down it can be reshaped

Don’t be a critic. The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Discovering Distilled Creativity”Amazing how sitting down to listen with no distractions – no tv, no devices, no radio – can enhance your life; the sigh of the wind the only ambient noise. Then, in that...

When you’ve found your inner artist, suddenly nothing is ever finished

Art is either revolution or plagiarism

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

Dance is the divine art that empowers a lady to express her most sacred emotions through the majesty of movements.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I’ve also stood in front of those same paintings with people who’ve...

Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is...

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

Film photography will always be superior to digital – because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you’ve got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and...

There’s a difference between the ‘art’ of writing and the ‘craft’ of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and...

Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.

If we don’t value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are very conscious of that,who find that terrifying.The thought that everyone,friend of...

But you’re an artist. You don’t believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I haven’t the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don’t believe any...

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!

When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical...

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as...

I think there is definitely a renaissance in the art community of Oakland. Oakland is starting to have self-determination and tell our stories. It’s part of the spirit of Oakland.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin – in however small a way – to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys....

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find...

I want to be famous but unknown!

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Think most of what matters. Think less of what doesn’t.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows...

My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don’t understand these images that are empowering me. My brush touches the canvas like photons to the earth, and a new world...

I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.

This is my logo for Colton

Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It’s also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to...

No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the...

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance...

Art shows what’s inside. And that’s scary. Showing my paintings would be like…like cutting my arm open in front of a crowd and showing them what color I bleed.