If we don’t value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?

Photography is like stealing.You rob someone of a moment that exposes something essential about their character,their soul if you like.there are people who are very conscious of that,who find that terrifying.The thought that everyone,friend of...

But you’re an artist. You don’t believe in decency and honesty and gratitude.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

I haven’t the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

This is a perfectly good picture. And if I didn’t know you, I would be impressed and charmed. But I do know you.”He thought some more, wondering whether he dared say precisely what he felt,...

A brilliant mind was first a listener that observed the actions of the people that loved and hated them, then found a way to express their feelings, when real communication was lost.

There have been times I’ve felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don’t believe any...

To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk.

Interns, unite: you have nothing to lose but your unpaid positions!

When you want to make the main color pure and bright, don’t just keep adding bright colors on it. Just make the colors around the spot darker and dull. It will give the scene dramatical...

And is it not the artists that make art? Well, no: criticism is now the substance of art making to such a degree that many of today’s public artists do away with the product as...

I think there is definitely a renaissance in the art community of Oakland. Oakland is starting to have self-determination and tell our stories. It’s part of the spirit of Oakland.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin – in however small a way – to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys....

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

The result may be important but it’s not the actual measure. The measure is the feeling you have made contact with something.

The core of your true self is never lost. Let go of all the pretending and the becoming you’ve done just to belong.Curl up with your rawness and come home. You don’t have to find...

I want to be famous but unknown!

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Think most of what matters. Think less of what doesn’t.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows...

My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don’t understand these images that are empowering me. My brush touches the canvas like photons to the earth, and a new world...

I can draw like it’s nobody’s business. I use my door as a canvas, so don’t knock, because it’s nobody’s business.

This is my logo for Colton

Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It’s also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to...

No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the...

Fragments are the only forms I trust.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The enchantments of the past must always become the disenchantments of the future. But memory, a preservative, may intervene. The embalmer of original enchantments, it is the only human faculty that can outwit the advance...

Art shows what’s inside. And that’s scary. Showing my paintings would be like…like cutting my arm open in front of a crowd and showing them what color I bleed.

My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul,...

There is no such thing as art,” he said. “There is only this painting, this piece of music, that sculpture. And it either resonates with you or it doesn’t.” He paused for a moment and...

In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey

La emoción trágica, efectivamente, es una cara que mira en dos direcciones: hacia el terror y hacia la piedad, y ambos son fases de ella. Habrás visto que uso la palabra paraliza. Quiero decir que...

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

I think a strong claim can be made that the process of scientific discovery may be regarded as a form of art. This is best seen in the theoretical aspects of Physical Science. The mathematical...

Because you live to love and love to live/ And because of what your heardrum will give/ Now we might love to live and live to love.

When art is made new, we are made new with it. We have a sense of solidarity with our own time, and of psychic energies shared and redoubled, which is just about the most satisfying...

Art is a picture of the spirit.

Art appears when the artist disappears.

I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it...

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to...