A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one

Painting is a great outlet for those inner emotions you cannot get out any other way.

This story inspires me to contribute with something unique and exciting for my time.

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded,...

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor’s hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.

For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that’s exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects...

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art.

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see…And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you’re not even sure of what you’re seeing. But when it’s down there on paper,...

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

What do evangelicals excel at most these days? We have mastered the art of public communication.

Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europeans really noticed this art. Its...

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

I think one’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say ‘It is in me, and shall out.’ Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of...

The Beautiful is always strange.

A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure – an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation – characterizes Montaigne’s restless reflections on matter in motion,...

Often I’ll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there’s no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the...

Art is a jealous mistress.

If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

When I see individuals so passionate for their chosen field, I feel a very strong sense of belonging. Passion unites us – not just every writer and every chef but every musician, every artist, every...

We put on our walls what we think is beautiful or inspiring, and if others think that it is manufactured or shallow, then they need not have it on their walls.

Happiness is an art and the one who knows this art lives happily even if they don’t have anything.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

This place is alive,” Sunni said in wonder. “Things are moving. Inside a painting.

Each time I glanced into the rearview mirror, the black around my eyes was bigger and darker. Every once in a while Tom and I would look at each other with a silent acknowledgement that...

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are an artist. Your single greatest work of art is your self. As with...

There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

How promising today’s generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I’d like to see these kids...

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.

Art has a voice – let it speak.

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

Rare and powerful harmonies exist,Shaping both scent and contour in a flower.Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until,Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond.And thus do images of fleeting vision,Drifting above like cloud-forms in...

[…] a familiar art historical narrative […] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. […] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition...

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

… but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could...

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know...