I don’t like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody’s dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way...

After I see a painting, I go into a room, I close my eyes and I slowly escape into the beauty of the painting. I reflect on the painting, the nuances of the artwork, it’s...

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.”[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a...

The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favour of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of...

The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.

The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself...

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality.

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Art is simply a result of expression during right feeling. It’s a result of a grip on the fundamentals of nature, the spirit of life, the constructive force, the secret of growth, a real understanding...

Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates...

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label ‘artist’ is to be used lightly.

Who wants to know? Like it’s any of your business…. so I happen to like art work…. don’t expect me to show you my magic marker collection, either…. they are for me and my special...

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that’s no guarantee you’ll create anything worth all your effort. You’re always haunt by the...

He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but he hated the instincts that robbed him of his self-possession. I think, even,...

They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits

Beauty! Wasn’t that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized to it, the intelligentsia regarded it with suspicion. To most of her peers,...

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

Some people create war and misery, some create wealth and money, and some create ideas and art. But we all create our own deaths, fashioned out of our lives. Nobody will remember how you died,...

What does the novel know? It has no practical or educational aim; yet it knows what ordinary knowledge cannot seize. The novel’s intricate tangle of character-and-incident alights on the senses with a hundred cobwebby knowings...

Captive Greece took captive her savage conquerer and brought the arts to rustic Latium

Tortured Soul 101: The depth of despair one experiences during the creative process (as experienced say, in an abysmally blank page or canvas) is directly proportional to the scope and power of the work that...

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

a spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will have toshow me said the spideri scurry aroundgutters and sewersand garbage...

Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of...

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.

She told me to draw the curtains shut, so I grabbed my pencil and began to sketch.

I put my deodorant on like I’m painting my armpits with a paintbrush. Art is everywhere and in everything—especially love.

A water fountain is a drinkable sculpture. I just drank one shaped like my father, and I can’t wait to shoot him out of my penis, so I can abandon him like he did to...

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Creativity can impact some sort of “CHANGE” in the WORLD. But we must first embrace pure “DIFFERENCES” and work together for a common cause.

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.

I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

. . . it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living

To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty

The brightest stars don’t necessarily give the most light.

Art is like that. You set out to make one thing and make another.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.