Art is a process, not a product.

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

He remembered that in the art books he had leafed through at Leader’s, many paintings depicted death. A severed head on a platter. A battle, and the ground strewn with bodies. Swords and spears and...

Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art — something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their...

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.

He said, it’s rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven’t any choice. But it’s what you say that counts. It’s what distinguishes all great art...

His whole being, his whole life was awakened in one instant, as if youth returned to him, as if the extinguished sparks of talent blazed up again. The blindfold suddenly fell from his eyes. God!...

They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts,” he says, “The weather, which, as they’re farmers, affects everything else. Dying and birthing, of...

I think a lot of the reason we’re doing wearable art is because of Karma.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Literature, although it stands apart by reason of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is yet an art like other arts. Of these we may distinguish two...

I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music....

He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or bridges or igloos, or shaped like airplanes or rowboats or fire engines. And...

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Finesse and refinement are admirable qualities, but they are not the artist’s ultimate goals; and, indeed, they can stand in the way of those goals.

[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not last; even if, by some miracle, it were to last a whole...

Anyone can put paint on a canvas, but only a true master can bring the painting to life. Anyone can kill, but only a genius can make murder an art.

I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, “Why did I never realize before that that...

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it’s our only hope.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.

ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.One day a wag –what would the wretch be at? — Shifted a letter of the...

…the law of empathy, by which he could, by his will, transfer himself into an object or a work of art, and thus inflence the outer world. He did not feel redeemed by the work...

…art must must carry man’s craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the...

We need our Arts to teach us how to breathe

Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect’s incomprehensible art!

Any man who bears the ability of a polymath shall not be interfered by specialty, he needs discipline to manage his behaviors and nurture his creativity.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

The only thing–I tell you this straight from the heart–that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can’t have any proper social intercourse with those people–and that music does not have a better reputation…For I...

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

[…] art instills the fundamental moral lesson: That you aren’t the center of the universe. That others weren’t created for your benefit. That they are just as real as you, with equal claimes to dignity...

when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects

The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon this possibility of freedom – and thus its significance – in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite...

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

But then, that’s the beauty of writing stories—each one is an exploratory journey in search of a reason and a shape. And when you find that reason and that shape, there’s no feeling like it.”[Peter...

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one’s surface interest then...

In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature’s part

Everybody is original, if he tells the truth, if he speaks from himself. But it must be from his *true* self and not from the self he thinks he *should* be.

The truth has to come out, that’s the basis of art. But that’s not to say the world must see it. Be brave. Don’t be afraid to draw the secret things. No one said art...

For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums.

Dans chaque vie où de la pluie doit tomber, quelques jours seront sombres et lugubres – c’est vrai, il ne peut en aller autrement, et pourtant je me demande si le nombre de jours sombres...

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting.

The emotion of art is impersonal. And the poet cannot reach this impersonality without surrendering himself wholly to the work to be done. And he is not likely to know what is to be done...

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.

You can not teach art, it’s not to be taught, but felt and lived, or else it is naught.

I think comedy as an art involves the audience as a participant as much as is involves the artist.