Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.The usual way of looking at...

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong...

You haunt my days and dreams.

The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone

I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In fact, my pictures show me how much I’ve lost.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it’s no go if your personality isn’t worth translating.

During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by ‘preventing worse language.’ In the military it would be...

You must learn the art of disappearance to protect yourself from the stupid! This art will save your time and your energy and it will keep your mind’s purity. And what is this art? It...

you cannot teach art—you cannot make a soul

Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public...

Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a...

That’s the beauty of art–we strive for perfection but never achieve it. The journey is everything.

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of...

Initially, I feel expansive when I try something new, and then contract as soon as I encounter difficulty or the unknown. I am learning to experiment with my tolerance of difficulty and the not knowing,...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life– as if life could be put off for a time– what nonsense! The revolution broke out willy-nilly...

Art doesn’t have to make sense, little dhamphir. Besides, I’m supposed to be crazy, right?

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look....

I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams.

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

There’s no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is popular or unpopular. What is banned in Boston may be bid on at Christie’s.

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

Art is childhood.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

The absence of a muse can be even more inspirational than its presence

Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.

Innovation is the art at the eyes of artist; the science at the mind of scientist; and the bridge between the art and science.

People, there’s no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

The more people have time to experience the joys of creativity, the less they will be consumers, especially of mass-produced culture. I see that as a kind of new wealth that counts for more than...

ERRORS ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. PLOT TWIST: I’M A HORSE.

Most people seem to resent the controversial in music; they don’t want their listening habits disturbed. They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress...

I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all. We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped...

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

Your craft is comprehensive if it represents you.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

What he was after hangs between the visible and the invisible, between the here and now and the seemingly elsewhere.

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t

When asked for advice on how to write a short story, Carlos Cortés responded, No advice. Every writer has to exorcise his own demons.

Century after century, the belief that an individual’s physical health was independent of his or her emotional health has so dominated medical thought that there has even been open contempt for anyone who would dare...

It’s possible to commit art and entertainment in the same moment.