I am the foremost collector of velvet Elvii in the city of Chicago,” I said at once. “Elvii?” Marcone inquired.”The plural would be Elvises, I guess,” I said. “But if I say that too often,...

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

It is not knowledge that makes an artist

If you have a rifle, hanging on the wall in the first act, it should fire in the last act”.

The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole...

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The...

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it / a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand / as a kind of final test. If...

Whether it’s trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable–all communication is rhetoric in action.

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

Approach a great painting as thou wouldst approach a great prince.

The destruction of sight, wherever the injuries be sustained, follows the same law: all colours are affected in the first place, and lose their saturation. Then the spectrum is simplified, being reduced to four andsoon...

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art — and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

However much you are read in theory, if thou hast no practice thou art ignorant

Nature is the art of time.

A creative thought at first sight seems ridiculous and unimportant, an increase in those who cherish it reassures that hiding your creativity hides you for the rest of your life.

Know everything. Say nothing.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you...

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Van Gogh: “It is precisely in learning to suffer without complaining,29 learning to consider pain without repugnance, that one risks vertigo a little; and yet it might be possible, yet one glimpses even a vague...

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

…emotions fly humans toward art

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

craftsman”? The one who creates bestows being itself, he brings something out of nothing—ex nihilo sui et subiecti, as the Latin puts it—and this, in the strict sense, is a mode of operation which belongs...

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.

Would Turner have slept through such terrific drama? Absolutely not! Anyone in my business who slept through that would be a fool. I don’t keep office hours.

…she (the artist, the writer) doesn’t wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

Colour is a matter of personal opinion.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Inside” ChildrenInside each of us are the children we were at each developmental stage. With regard to our creative dreams, these inside children can prevent us from living them by “acting out” in order to...

By and large the literature of a democracy will never exhibit the order, regularity, skill, and art characteristic of aristocratic literature; formal qualities will be neglected or actually despised. The style will often be strange,...

Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.

To know how to avoid the cliche, to know what tradition you are pushing forward, begins with knowing what that tradition is.

Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic...

It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all. We should long ago have become angels had we been capable of paying attention to...

Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

Everything that now exists, no matter how great and good it is, lasts for a time, fulfills a purpose, and then passes on. And so it will be with all the works of art that...

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.

I realized how subversive Ruth was then, not because she drew pictures of nude women that got misused by her peers, but because she was more talented than her teachers. She was the quietest kind...

We are very honored to display Chen’s representative art pieces to the public.

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

Magic is logic.

Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.

This is a familiar syndrome. There is a stage with every drawing or painting when it looks banal and clumsy. It’s worth pushing through that, working through the cliché to find out what made it...