When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I’ve tried to express just that. If I...

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of...

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are...

Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think...

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

Haven’t I told you scores of times, that you’re always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the...

More than half.” True, but would they also know Georgia is a state, a country, and a painter?

If love were a collection of collections, would your relationship be banged-up baseball cards, or famous art? My love for you is famous art. You just have to wait for my death so my work...

Love is on the move like a picture of a statue. I should know, because I painfully painted it.

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!

Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured...

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The verb ‘to darn’ is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: ‘To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.’ But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished...

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps...

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

The first duty of an Author is — I conceive — a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a conscientious study of Art as shall enable him to interpret eloquently and effectively...

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his...

Use art, be creative. No more war. No more children dying. A pawn that does not move in chess upsets the game. I know there is love in the world still and that is what...

For the true artist, there is no trivial thing.

Having seen one of William Steig’s letters, I mentioned to Arthur how similar I thought William’s handwriting seemed to the lines of his drawings.’I never connected the handwriting and the drawing,’ Arthur remarked. ‘But they’re...

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is...

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and...

Art was art, humans were humans, but art was best when it was human.

Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed with passion and loving carePray for us now against suffering, turmoil, and injusticePray for us now against the chaos of the...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Forge your iron; shape it by force, not into a flower you already know but into what can also be a flower if you think it is and it is so.

The body is an art to give pleasure to the soul

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger’s considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of...

Contemporary art plays a very important role and will play a bigger role, but our mission is to bring the best of the world’s art through time and space.

Thus far and no farther.

Porque la vida, por todas sus descaradas absuridades, pequeñas y grandes, de que está felizmente llena, tiene el inestimable privilegio de poder prescindir de esta estupidísima verosimilutd, a la que el arte cree su deber...

Mientras mas honda la herida,Es mi canto mas hermoso.While more deeper is the woundThe more beautiful the art.

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break...

Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me...

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

As I sit here on a snowy morning watching the flakes gently fall outside my window, I look at the 300-year-old building across the street and the beautifully carved angels on its facade. There was...

Watch out, brother,’ his professor had told him more than once, ‘you have talent; it would be a sin to ruin it. But you’re impatient. Some one thing entices you, some one thing takes your...

The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is as strong as the dream. He is not someone possessed,...

What a comfort to know that God is a poet.