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...

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

I’m just a musical prostitute, my dear.

The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile ‘eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden.

When you see a fish you don’t think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water. Well, I’ve tried to express just that. If I...

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

The mythic voice rising from literature and art allows us to be humane. We are not humane because of political power, or education, or even religion. We are humane because we recognize the humanity of...

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are...

Our every action has consequences. Thoughts have consequences. Since actions start from thoughts I guess I can say technically that thoughts in general have consequences. In our thoughts we make dreams. So if I think...

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something more than sit on its ass in a museum.

Haven’t I told you scores of times, that you’re always beginners, and the greatest satisfaction was not in being at the top, but in getting there, in the enjoyment you get out of scaling the...

More than half.” True, but would they also know Georgia is a state, a country, and a painter?

If love were a collection of collections, would your relationship be banged-up baseball cards, or famous art? My love for you is famous art. You just have to wait for my death so my work...

Love is on the move like a picture of a statue. I should know, because I painfully painted it.

Photography is a Passion Not a Hobby!

Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured...

Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

The verb ‘to darn’ is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: ‘To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.’ But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished...

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

The more you love,the more love you have to give.It’s the only feeling we have which is infinite…

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps...