Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.

If I ever have to cast an acting role, I want the wrong person for the part. I can never visualize the right person in a part. The right person for the right part would...

Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman’s body is beyond a words measure; with their dazzling rawness it’s impossible to perfect but I crave the need...

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

The art historians are the real wreckers of art, Reger said. The art historians twaddle so long about art until they have killed it with their twaddle. Art is killed by the twaddle of the...

I have no duty to be anyone’s Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the...

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but...

‘Paint only what you see,’ his hero Millet had admonished.’Imagination is a burden to a painter,’ Auguste Renoir had told him. ‘Painters are craftsmen, not storytellers. Paint what you see.’Ah, but what they hadn’t said,...

How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

Kujua nini kitatokea kesho, au kesho kutwa, au kujua jinsi usaili wako wa kazi utakavyokuwa, au ni maswali gani utakayoulizwa kwenye mtihani kwa mfano, kutarahisisha sana maisha yetu. ‘Madirisha’ madogo katika kipindi cha saa za...

It is through vision that innovation is conceived;through will power it is then materialized.

It’s an art gallery open seven days a week, 24 hours a day and can be accessed from anywhere around the world.

Five state-of-the-art warships equipped with missiles came (to the area) on September 9,

Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

It’s her ability as an artist to see possibility where others see a blank page and, by extension, to see victory where others see certain defeat that truly empowers her…

Art is Alchemy.

Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.

Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer...

In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It’s green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you’ll still get wet – that’s...

If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all...

A Christian should use these arts to the glory of God, not just as tracts, mind you, but as things of beauty to the praise of God. An art work can be a doxology in...

Franklin knew that the truth lay with the winter night: the world was silent and black-and-white.

Outside of the dreary rubbish that is churned out by god knows how many hacks of varying degrees of talent, the novel is, it seems to me, a very special and rarefied kind of literary...

To me art means power to sway people not with my words but with a mere picture. Art means expression, not my own but of the subjects. Art means truth; because when you see a...

You have wavered uncertainly between two systems, between drawing and coloring, between the painstaking phlegm, the stiff precision, of the old German masters, and the dazzling ardor, the happy fertility, of the Italian painters.

“It’s an art to live with pain… mix the light in into grey.”–Love Boat Captain–

Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs. Thus, designers must...

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don’t take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

Books”—which it merely restores. The Kaaba, center of the Muslim world, becomes space as soon as one is inside the building: the ritual direction of prayer is then projected toward the four cardinal points.If Christianity...

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

In high school pottery class, I never made a whole vase. Instead I made fragments that I tried to sell as historical artifacts. The effort earned me an F in pottery, and an A in...

My love is like the collision between a falling statue and still bird poop.

I had sex with a statue a few months ago. The sex was so still that I’m still wearing the condom.

Nature is a haunted house–but Art–is a house that tries to be haunted.

But anyway, I look around sometimes and I think – this will maybe sound weird – it’s like the corporate world’s full of ghosts. And actually, let me revise that, my parents are in academia...

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

An artist owed a duty to nothing except his own irresponsibility. It was OK for an artist to frolic in the water, no matter how bloody the waves or how high the tide rose. An...

Because his [Damien Hirst] art is idea art – art drawn on the back of cigarette packets and beer mats, roughed out in airport departure lounges and the back of the taxis, usually delegated to...

Create something. Create something ugly. Create something beautiful. I don’t care what it is. Create it. 

Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.