Enjoy the brush strokes of life and try not to worry about filling the canvas.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all...

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently...

I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.

The ‘Renaissance’ West Butchered the Rest.If I had to choose between an erudite Aristotle and an unknown ‘soulless’ black slave I would choose the latter. The ascendancy of the West was on a heap of...

L’étude du beau est un duel où l’artiste crie de frayeur avant d’être vaincu.

Picasso created blank spaces through which an imagination could fly.

LIFE IS NEVER OVER.

When diplomacy fails, whisper through Art and your message will echo for eternity.

On a cement pediment stands the inevitable bronze statue of a man in a cheap suit.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather...

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.

The Element of Surprise is their in every day,It’s when you wake up.

Now relax, think positively and begin — the smile of success awaits you.

I want to do drawings which touch people…In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.

…it’s just another one of those things I don’t understand: everyone impresses upon you how unique you are, encouraging you to cultivate your individuality while at the same time trying to squish you and everyone...

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you’re an artist, by children if you’re not.

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

The connoisseur’s hushed, museum-trained gaze is not well-designed for these purposes. That gaze values subtlety, complexity, ambiguity, and irony. Its most characteristic grace note is self-congratulation at being the kind of person who likes this...

The best art always comes unbidden.

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible

Luggage and guests did not travel together … in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

Art is a sense of magic.

This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just...

Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)

My father used to say, ‘If you want to know the artist, look at the art’. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.

Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work....

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Color is only beautiful when it means something.

Music is not my life. My life is music.

We will be happy if we can get around to the idea that art is not an outside and extra thing; that it is a natural outcome of a state of being; that the state...

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.

Observation is a dying art.

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I...

I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.

I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I...

There are no problems, only solutions.

Having been an English literary graduate, I’ve been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since.

I must kill some memories,the heavy ones first and aftermake righteous of my un-even soul.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

Though some may think there should be a separation between art/music and politics, it should be reinforced that art can be a form of nonviolent protest.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Commercial Art tries to make you buy things. Graphic Design gives you ideas.

One must give himself completely to his art and not hold back. Throw caution to the wind. Embrace the muse. Make love to your art.