Art is a terrible preacher, but a tremendous conversationalist.

Through the magic of art imaginary worlds become real.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

I was truly happy. But my state was not that of any ordinary satisfaction. It was a joy which stemmed directly from creative, artistic achievement.

You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can’t create out of indifference.

Original art emanates in the mind … and lessons society’s confusion from self indulgence, avarice and greed to trust, hope and love.

I understand art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being

Once you have hundreds of millions of dollars, it’s hard to know where to put it all. Art is transportable, unregulated, glamorous, arcane, beautiful, difficult. It is easier to store than oil, more esoteric than...

Crafternoon is about making what you want, how you want it, to the best of your ability. And even if you may not think of yourself as a rock star of creativity, it’s there inside...

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to those who make of it a living influence. Thus they sought to regulate their daily life by the high standard of refinement which...

En asuntos de arte la modestia no es una virtud.

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey...

I would show you this quality in all the writers whose works you read while I’m asleep, I would show you the same identity as in Vinteuil. These key-phrases, which you are beginning to recognise...

Time is art of the art.

An artist who conforms to conventional ideas is nothing but a mere charlatan.

The visual arts will one day be king. The pop stars and celebrities soon to be forgotten.

Life as an art cannot be copied; it must be created.

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that’s how I felt about drawing.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.

When you start with a portrait and try to find pure form by abstracting more and more, you must end up with an egg.

Because this painting has never been restored there is a heightened poignance to it somehow; it doesn’t have the feeling of unassailable permanence that paintings in museums do.There is a small crack in the lower...

Ah! my dear friend, to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us… a consolatory art for distressed hearts! There are as yet only a few who feel it...

The brightest sun of the art mostly rises on the dark horizons of the deep unhappiness.

The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.

You can’t help it. An artist’s duty, as far as I’m concerned, is to reflect the times.

Creado por él, para él mismo, el arte ayudó al hombre a hablar sobre lo prohibido,, a vivir lo desconocido, a experimentar lo imposible.

God and other artists are always a little obscure…..

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable.

There’s something about being naïve. Really interesting things come because you don’t know what the rules are, what you can and can’t do.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

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.

Art is a person’s private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

Chen is an indelible name in contemporary art, whether in the West or East. In his mind, art could heal the human spirit, and once healed, that spirit could implement the ideals of a harmonious...

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn’t about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.