Good swiping is an art in itself

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

The arts especially address the idea of aesthetic experience. An aesthetic experience is one in which your senses are operating at their peak; when you’re present in the current moment; when you’re resonating with the...

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get...

It is almost impossible to express the extraordinary silence that came over everyone whose eyes were fixed on the painting––not a rustle, not a sound; and the painting meanwhile appeared loftier and loftier with every...

True art is by nature moral. We recognize true art by its careful, thoroughly honest search for and analysis of values. It is not didactic because, instead of teaching by authority and force, it explores,...

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. ‘Show me what it looked like, before the fire.’ His request surprised me, but I did as he...

A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist’s life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal...

I came with many knots in my heart,like the magician’s rope.You undid them all at once.I see now the splendor of the studentand that of the teacher’s art.Love and this body sit inside your presence,one...

only one who obeys can truly command.” When the artist is immersed in a services,giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:He is being seen by all others as a master.

On my website there’s a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: “The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world...

In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the superfluous material.

Create a guidebook of creative dreamsYou can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between...

How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important...

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, ‘I know what I like,’ he is really saying ‘I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my...

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.-An Experiment in Criticism

What we at first deem useless might end up being the next bestseller. It can be the product’s novelty, fun factor or sheer stupidity. Whatever the case, just remember there’s always room on the market...

We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

The artist is the only one qualified to criticize his art, because only the artist knows what he was trying to express and how satisfied he is with the attempt.

The painted picture was a bit rough, which was probably done on purpose, yet seemed eerily real as if there actually was a way to step through it into the wild jungle

I must,” then build your life upon it. It has become your necessity. Your life, in even the most mundane and least significant hour, must become a sign, a testimony to this urge.

I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art.

Habitualization devours objects, clothes, furniture, one’s wife, and the fear of war. If all the complex lives of many people go on unconsciously, then such lives are as if they had never been. Art exists...

The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.

It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as...

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

A highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.

Love is an art, Berk. Just like painting or music. Some painters draw mere lines, scratches on the canvas and call them art; some paint stars studded skies like van Gogh; or Chopin’s music conquers...

Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

When I was a young man, King Francois of France greatly admired my bare buttocks. I have that information only by hearsay, of course, because my buttocks were in the king’s chateau of Chambord while...

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Art becomes an honest expression once done for oneself. Failure of that results to empty and transparent art.

Artists shows us what we blind to.

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind...

Tennis is more than just a sport. It’s an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti....

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. You know, it doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define, but there you are, right there,...

Is there a recipe for making beauty? The schools give recipes, but they do not beget works that make people exclaim: ” How beautiful that is!

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to...