Poor presentation can make great art look terrible. Good presentation can make terrible art look great.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn’t...

That’s how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

True Artistic Freedom is in Having No Desire Of Rewards

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life’s fabric, to...

No se trata de ser buena. Se trata de ponerle pasión.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Change the world so that nothing else is changed.

What if you start to think of your art in terms of sales, too? Can you still be true to yourself?

Sex is an art; those who know better are the better artists.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change...

There is only one thing that matters in art-to express one’s individuality.

Obsession is more valuable to an artist than knowledge.

Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.

Art Is One if Life’s Richest Offerings. For those who have not the talent to create, there is appreciation.

I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone.

For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do...

But the young sapper was already on his back, the rifle aimed, his eye almost brushing the beards of Noah and Abraham and the variety of demons until he reached the great face and was...

I will admit that I wanted to shout for standing on the top of a scaffold in front of a good new wall always goes to my head. It is a sensation something between that...

In her dance, she controlled the bright paper birds with invisible wires and threads. She played the human: heavy, tied to earth. Her dances weren’t pretty or delightful, but they were magical, […] They called...

Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are...

Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his...

Art has nothing to do with taste. Art is not there to be tasted

When you read the art,

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken...

An art prodigy of the 21st century has yet to be crowned. Or have they?

One day people will come back. they won’t be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You’ll see. One day, this will be a...

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.

Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?

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.