I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.

I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

The brightest stars don’t necessarily give the most light.

Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn’t just march into a recording studio and start howling. He’d have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the...

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thoughtAs doth eternity…

Is this when you tell me I’m your soul mate, O’Neill?

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Find your authentic voice, become vulnerable, and then put yourself out there.

concessions ” ; on ne fait pas l’art qu’on veut. L’artiste est, au jour le jour, le réceptacle de choses ambiantes; il reçoit du dehors des sensations qu’il transforme par voie fatale, inexorable et tenace,...

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

They stood, a family, and walked out of the mall, into the sunlight, seeking to rearrange the shape of their surroundings, to blow something up and watch all the tiny pieces resettle around them like...

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First Amendment, we should recall, forbids Congress both from establishing laws designating a state...

You dive deeper, you strip away the cleverness and the words become more important than your ego and that’s when you know it’s real, when it’s good.

The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove… that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround...

Tell me, tutor,’ I said. ‘Is revenge a science, or an art?

Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the pain, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you’re...

I want to make a difference, I want to make a change, inspire a revolution, to create, reinvent, and rearrange.

Analysis is the art of creation through destruction.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

God creates the beauty. Through my camera, I am a witness.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

In the twentieth century, one encounters artworks that seek to cancel the difference between a real and an imagined reality by presenting themselves in ways that make them indistinguishable from real objects. Should we take...

War’s a brain spattering windpipe splitting art.

The creator wrestles with a hard, invisible substance, a substance far superior to him. Even the greatest victor emerges vanquished, because our deepest secret, the only one that deserves expression, always remains unexpressed. This secret...

…I’ve marked our sacred place not with stones – I’ve put it my art to keep it safe…

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the useful and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more...

All art is quite useless.

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line…To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life...

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

The professional loves her work. She is invested in it wholeheartedly. But she does not forget that the work is not her.

The scientific spirit, the contempt of tradition, the lack of discipline and the exaltation of the individual have very nearly made an end of art. It can only be restored by the love of beauty,...

You’ve sinned, I suppose, but your punishment has been out of all proportion. They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have no power of choice any longer. You are committed...

You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it’s an art form that benefits everyone.

Only about seventy years ago was chemistry, like a grain of seed from a ripe fruit, separated from the other physical sciences. With Black, Cavendish and Priestley, its new era began. Medicine, pharmacy, and the...

The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen.

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its ‘collective’ manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each...

If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The...

No art has ever really changed anything.

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.