Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if...

Abstract is a journey through both my mind and my past.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

Then Martine said: “So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?”Poor?” said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. “No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great...

Me: “All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don’t know what that means. I don’t know what I’m supposed to feel.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

No man can roan or inhabit the Canadian North without it affecting him, and the artist, because of his constant habit of awareness and his discipline in expression, is perhaps more understanding of its moods...

The photographer does the world a great disservice when he leaves his camera at home.

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with Elemental’s Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

You know how writers are… they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

So age after age — will it be soon, O Lord? —Beneath the scalpel of nature and art,Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself,Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense.(“The Sixth Sense”)

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

Imagination governs the world.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if...

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

We’re all pros already. 1) We show up every day 2) We show up no matter what 3) We stay on the job all day 4) We are committed over the long haul 5) The...

The importance about a work of Art is not just a question of likes and comments from friends. But the numbers of people who deeply understand the message behind the work.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Most artists weren’t famous until they died (mostly because once they’d died they couldn’t create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

The art of being a good guest is to know when to leave

Every true artist is at war with the world.

There really is power in numbers. In today’s society one has to understand the true power of word of mouth. It’s true that the new tastemakers are us.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Bakat seakan menjadi tumbal, seolah dengan mudahnya menyalahkan Si Bakat terhadap hal-hal yang tidak mereka kuasai

In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison...

I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to...

I doubt not that in due time, when the arts are brought to perfection, some means will be found to give a sound head to a man who has none at all

It’s a cute little studio apartment that has just what I need: a bed, a couch, a table, a chair, and a coffee-maker.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of...

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Smatrao sam da je jedina ispravna pozicija umetnika, pozicija izdajnika. Umetnik je onaj čiji smeh za pretke i tradiciju porugom se ori. Umetnost mora da stremi razlici, Drugom.

Maybe I liked his sculpture more when I couldn’t get close to it, had to see it from a fixed position through a pane of glass, so that I had to project myself into the...

Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception… as film is able to do today… And while efforts have been made to present paintings to the masses in galleries and salons,...

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

In short, it became possible – never easy, but possible – in the poet Auden’s phrase to find the mortal world enough.

My goal is to draw a line with some ‘flavor’ to it.

By agreeing to these terms and conditions, you will be signing your right to freedom of expression, all artistic credibility, all of your free time and your soul over to us. Do you agree?”I grasped...

…A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.

I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.

There are only two styles of portrait painting: the serious and the smirk.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

Man’s naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.