I will contend until I am shot that art as soon as it is brought into contact with politics inevitably sinks to the level of any ideological trash.

Journalism is not a precise science, it’s a crude art

Get the few main lines and see what lines they call out.

Rose’s work of art took her all day, including two playtimes, story time, and most of lunch.At the end of school it was stolen from her by the wicked teacher who had pretended to be...

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence, the belief that there was plenty of territory to explore, and above all the sense that art, in the...

Art is either a complaint or appeasement.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

He had entered another imaginative world, one connected to the beginning of his life as a writer, to the Napoleonic world that had been a lifelong metaphor for the power of art, for the empire...

The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.

I learned as a child, to tell a truly entertaining story requires a bit of fabrication.

USURY: Everybody’s looking for the job in which you never have to pay anyone their pound of flesh. Self-employed nirvana. A lot of artists like to think of themselves as uncompromising; a lot of management...

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Music is an outburst of the soul.

I want to make something of myself. I believe it’s called a statue.

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Art is vice. You don’t wed it, you rape it.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

If we give Jesus what we have, what we give Him will never be less.

There was an artist in the city of Kouroo who was disposed to strive after perfection. One day it came into his mind to make a staff. Having considered that in an imperfect work time...

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.

I could never be a chef, because I could ‘t bare the thought of my art always turning to shit.

This is my logo for Two-Faced

Love sounds like a trumpet mimicking a trombone. That’s one of my hobbies, when I’m not impersonating statues of mimes.

La nature est une oeuvre d’art, mais Dieu est le seul artiste qui existe, et l’homme n’est qu’un arrangeur de mauvais goût. La nature est belle, le sentiment s’exhale de tous ses pores; l’amour, la...

He gives her his Art History lecture.‘Then you get Mo-net and Ma-net, that’s a little tricky, Mo-net was the one did all the water lilies and shit, his colors were blues and greens, Ma-net was...

The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don’t get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it’s sunny, we stand in the sun. When it’s cold, we stand...

Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.

I am an artist. And An artist is simply a man who is pulled along by a river: on one side sanity lies, and the other madness, yet he will find no peace on either,...

Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail.

Homer begged and Rembrandt went bankrupt. Aristotle, who had money for books, his school, and his museum, could not have bought this painting of himself.Rembrandt could not afford a Rembrandt.

I wanted to do something that is generous to the whole exhibition. Contemporary art is a bit off-putting to people because they don’t know the history. Even the term contemporary art history is oxymoronic.

Don’t you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do?…To give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by converting the bread...

I want art that makes the world seem more unreal. I want fiction that can crumble the world and build it back into something new.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

Often when she liked a picture she found that she was liking some part of herself, some part of her that was in accord with the picture

The thing about being an artist,” Dad said, folding his newspaper and setting it down on the table, “is that there are always going to be people who want to stop you from doing your...

Art is a space in which freedom tests its wings.

The role of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a...

I’ll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I’d like to.

There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Sean at sixteen thought ‘Rexecutioner’s Dream’ was the greatest thing he’d ever heard, something so strange and different it seemed like a message from another realm. It had cover art, but the art was glued...

The idea that any art is achieved ‘intuitively’ is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of...

Every art communicates because it expresses. It enables us to share vividly and deeply in meanings… For communication is not announcing things… Communication is the process of creating participation, of making common what had been...

Dalí painted melting clocks. I suppose if he’d asked around first, quizzed people if they wanted to see a picture of a melting clock, the answer might have been something obvious, like ‘Clocks don’t melt!’...

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.

When something comes from within, when it is a part of you, you have no choice but to live it, to express it.