In God’s world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual.

You know a trillion times more about art than me. But I’ve learned that it isn’t necessary to know all that much. You just make what you wanna see, right? It’s a game, right? It’s...

I’ve always been interested in all sorts of things. Art, physics, history, philosophy, math — they’re all interesting. Making games just seems like a way to bring all these seemingly unrelated things together.

The new facility is being designed to state-of-the-art building and safety standards. Moreover, it must meet a high federal standard for safety and security before any work can be conducted there.

Because each work of art originates in the mind and feelings of a human being, it reaches its destination in the mind and feelings of another. A work of art, therefore, is a fact of...

I feel like I’m in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to look at his big, blank empty canvas. And in a way I am....

What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be a vehicle for self-conscious evangelism. Christians ought not to be threatened by fantasy and imagination. The Christian is...

The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market.

Protect the ears of your heart, rather than being drawn in each day like the fading tides that dance daily with the moon.

Art in order to move you has to be political or sexual – whether it is on canvas, in the drum of the cello, in the words of the poet. If it doesn’t move you,...

How much distance should there be between art and artist? I’d say no more than a lifetime.

My birthday is coming up. I was born on March 5th, 1982. Humans have come a long way since then—nearly 30 years, if my math is good. And my math better be good, because if...

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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

One has to commit a painting,’ said Degas,’the way one commits a crime.

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all.

Art is spirituality in drag

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Space is the breath of art.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

When extremists come together extreme things happen.

The aim of language…is to communicate…to impart to others the results one has obtained…As I talk, I reveal the situation…I reveal it to myself and to others in order to change it.

Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you can’t. Reading is not a passive act. Books are not...

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Art is the truth of the imagination.

Only a free hand can draw a free line.

An artist who maintains that he has been misunderstood is almost always a bad artist who, I’m afraid to say, has been understood.

Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.

Imagination is not, as some poets have thought, simply synonymous with good. It may be either good or evil. As long as art remained primarily mimetic, the evil which imagination could do was limited by...

For a second, I stared at the map of her veins just under the surface of her thin skin. It was like her body was trying to become diaphanous. Instead of getting harder and stronger...

…sometimes we enter art to hide within it. It is where we can go to save ourselves, where a third-person voice protects us.

B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.”Of course you do,’ I said, ‘everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Go home and go to...

I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.

The human body is the best work of art.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of time.

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

The best of all lost arts is honesty

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people’s dreams – their visions, really – we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces...

When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound...

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they’d have spat on at the time they were painted. Guffawed at. Made coarse jokes about.