As a mother you have thoughts. You get interrupted. You forget.You are distracted. Your thoughts and ideas become fragmented,diluted, or simply evaporate. You must have faith that you willagain have a thought. Creativity is the...

There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of a stroke you have made, it then becomes only an opportunity to create...

His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one’s own.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

The problem with a popular art form is that those who want something more are in a hopeless minority compared with the millions who are always seeing it for the first time, or for the...

The Arts are the only acceptable theatre of war for peace.

In many times, after creating a piece of work I want to stand up and applaud.

Andrei, did you like the opera?””Not particularly.””Andrei, do you see what you’re missing?””I don’t think I do, Kira. It’s all rather silly. And useless.””Can’t you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?””No....

Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their...

It’s up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don’t even want to use language you and I know or can...

Art is my second world, second soul and second language.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

You’re mind is working at its best when you’re being paranoid.You explore every avenue and possibility of your situationat high speed with total clarity.

An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.

The Larsta believed that life was about seeking the divine, he read. They taught that art draws us closer to understanding divinity. Since not all men can spend their time in art, it is to...

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be...

Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood....

Viața nu e suport pentru artă. Invers stau lucrurile.

A photograph is usually looked at- seldom looked into.

Art isn’t only a painting; it’s anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Please, never tell me what ‘horror erotica’ is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

The desire to make art begins early. Among the very young this is encouraged (or at least indulged as harmless) but the push toward a ‘serious’ education soon exacts a heavy toll on dreams and...

both you and paintings are layered… first, ephemera and notations on the back of the canvas. Labels indicate gallery shows, museum shows, footprints in the snow, so to speak. Then pencil scribbles on the stretcher,...

… food is not simply organic fuel to keep body and soul together, it is a perishable art that must be savoured at the peak of perfection.

All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.

There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.

Reagan’s failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.

What the world thought made little difference. Rembrandt had topaint. Whether he painted well or badly didn’t matter; painting was thestuff that held him together as a man. The chief value of art, Vincent, liesin...

I have this rage that I can’t explain. It’s sad.

Art has been wrecked by a complete consciousness of the universe which shews that the world is to each man only a rubbish-heap limned by his individual perception. It will be saved, if at all,...

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells are the physical Light of our body.Colors can be used to heal, restore...

Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.

Some people are ignorant of the world but educated in Scripture, and are therefore prone to missing the relevance of Scripture – these sometimes, later, amidst life’s challenges and doubts, turn from the faith; other...

Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away… Making lines run into each other is not composition. There must be motive for the connection. Get the art of...

In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.

It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say ‘this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian’. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can...

I don’t want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

I would simply ask why so many critics, so many writers, so many philosophers take such satisfaction in professing that the experience of a work of art is ineffable, that it escapes by definition all...

When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist…. Wait, are you talking about me?

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Q: Do you feel concerned that after all this work, people won’t treat [Starship Titanic] with the gravity of, say, a movie or a book? That they won’t treat it as an art form?D.A.: I...