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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.

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul,...

There is no such thing as art,” he said. “There is only this painting, this piece of music, that sculpture. And it either resonates with you or it doesn’t.” He paused for a moment and...

In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey

La emoción trágica, efectivamente, es una cara que mira en dos direcciones: hacia el terror y hacia la piedad, y ambos son fases de ella. Habrás visto que uso la palabra paraliza. Quiero decir que...

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical...

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying...

Art is a picture of the spirit.

Art appears when the artist disappears.

I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it...

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to...

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...

Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic...

We’re basically capturing that same emotion. I think a lot of folks miss out on the art of things these days, so we’re gonna try to find it.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I’ve noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one’s country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Earth without art is just eh.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a...

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has...

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside...

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Art’s cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to...

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

There’s sort of an art to the whole fence, toilet, concession thing that’s sometimes looked at as no big thing. But it’s taken years for us to get it down to the way we need...

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.””I hate them for it,” cried Hallward. “An artist should create...

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of...

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

I’m an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably...

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other,...