The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never...

A pear, an apple, and a banana in a basket on a table isn’t art, no matter how skillfully painted. But it is something to talk about, or at least a tasty way to utilize...

Chivalry, stimulating conversations, everything is said to be a lost art nowadays. But nothing is a lost art, unless it’s a sunken statue—in a river of lava.

Snow on one side of the canvas, silence on the other. I’d call that a perfect painting.

All literature and popular art contain themes that resonate with the audience.

I never knew him. We both knew this place, apparently, this literal small backwater, looked at it long enough to memorize it, our years apart. How strange. And it’s still loved, or its memory is...

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

I don’t have technique because I never learnt any.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of the established reality principle…The encounter with the truth of art...

Of course it is juggling, theman in motley was saying…YOu know what your problem is, Sir Grenall? You’ve been seduced by the lure of spectacle. Sure, I could juggle three or four balls and use...

What I love about the sculpture is that it makes the bones that we are always walking and playing on manifest, like in a world that so often denies the reality of death and the...

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls… searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor… What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all...

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.

It has been said that art is a tryst; for in the joy of it, maker and beholder meet.

Sex is natural, but enjoying it’s an art.

It’s more business and less art. The record labels are only releasing things that are going to make money right now.

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some …” Jean Anouilh, The Rehearsal

I want what we all want,” said Carl. “To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

And still, still, there is more to describe- we paint because drawing breath is an agony and exhaling an ecstasy and somewhere in the space in-between we think we once found a truth; and the...

In my box of sound bites there are no jackhammers, no snowmobiles, no Jet Skis, no children wailing. Music but no Muzak.It’s my box. Put what you want in yours.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

In the glowing evenings embedded within pearl sands of my Utopian lands and the skies dazzling with the beauty of a thousand melodic rainbows, feeling your tender touch, hearing your luring voice, merged with your...

Art is an other door to IMAGINATION. And without imagination nothing is possible.

Ocular infidelity is unfortunately rampant in this so called “artist’s world.

While Elstir, at my request, went on painting, I wandered about in the half-light, stopping to examine first one picture, then another.Most of those that covered the walls were not what I should chiefly have...

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

We can never be entirely original, as artists or as people. The genius and vision of those who came before us is too great for us to digress from entirely. Though, as creatures that are...

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if...

It’s impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness...

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...