They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young...

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.(“Literature, Revolution, and Entropy”)

We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

The ones who constantly make us laugh are the hardest of friends to know – for comedians are the caricatures among us.

Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living – very good things for anyone to be interested in.

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more...

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

My experience with life is that it’s very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some...

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

Good humor isn’t a trait of character; it is an art which requires practice

My art hid the fact that it was art, it was so real.

Art cannot save anybody from anything.

Drawing on my past experiences, I used a lot of erasers. My aging wisdom is starting to look a lot like a nude portrait of Alice Neel.

However,” he continued, “this canvas is preferable to the paintings of that varlet Rubens, with his mountains of Flemish flesh sprinkled with vermilion, his waves of red hair and his medley of colors.

It’s an art to live with pain…mix the light into gray.

A genuine work of art must mean many things; the truer its art, the more things it will mean. If my drawing, on the other hand, is so far from being a work of art...

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the ‘standpoint of art’ can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology… gives the...

A day is too precious a treasure to forfeit.

Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but...

Rembrandt painted portraits, The Karate Kid painted fences, and I paint my toenails. But I’m not a snob, I still consider those other two guys to be artists.

Good art is like a sexy pair of lips—it has the potential to say so much, but prefers to have you do all the talking about it. Also, good art is fun to kiss and...

Art books are filled with interesting images. And that’s cool and all, but I look more for the nudes.

When searching for a missing person, I’ll canvas the area. Like a painter. I make love like Bob Ross, only your happy tree is happier, and I’ll keep your coffee warm—in my stomach.

Much Madness is Divinest Sense, to a Discerning Eye….

If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer … I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and...

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

You can’t memorize poetry and stay a fake. Sooner or later, you start to understand what these poets are saying, and it makes you feel life has something quite special, with certain layers of meaning...

If it sells, it’s art.

Do the thing that scares you.

..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.

You see one painting, I see another, the art book puts it another remove still, the lady buying the greeting card at the museum gift shop sees something else entirely, and that’s not even to...

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.

The public has a right to artThe public is being ignored by most contemporary artists….Art is for everybody….I am interested in making art to be experienced and explored by as many individuals as possible with...

The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off – or pimp themselves out – as art....

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Art and science should serve humanity and not the other way around.

i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.

in the corner of the painting of successthe signature is blurred

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the...

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.

I am intrigued with scriptural mythology that tells us that God created a divine feminine presence to dwell amongst humanity. This concept has had a constant influence on the work. I have imagined her as...