I so enjoyed working with Jessica on our Rushmore project. Sharing the art is important to both of us.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are...

Don’t be afraid to do weird stuff, so long as you do it cheaply and cover everyone’s bets. Be bold. Be stupid, if you have to: so long as you don’t hurt anybody, what’s it...

creativity keeps the world alive, yet, everyday we are asked to be ashamed of honoring it, wanting to live our lives as artists. i’ve carried the shame of being a ‘creative’ since i came to...

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...

Art is bad when ‘you see the intent and get put off.’ (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic...

We’re basically capturing that same emotion. I think a lot of folks miss out on the art of things these days, so we’re gonna try to find it.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I’ve noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one’s country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.

Earth without art is just eh.

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to transformations that can not only make it safe for public consumption, not a...

All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and luck. And even should the artist or scientist think she has...

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside...

Time’ is the most threatening four letter word.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite — getting something down.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Art’s cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

Because this law could mean so much or so little, it held potential for causing great mischief in the world of art and politics. We needed to reduce its uncertainty, and the best way to...

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

There’s sort of an art to the whole fence, toilet, concession thing that’s sometimes looked at as no big thing. But it’s taken years for us to get it down to the way we need...

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.””I hate them for it,” cried Hallward. “An artist should create...

Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the world. The work of the artist is an expression of...

Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul’s evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

I’m an atheist, but I believe in art. I go to galleries like my mother went to church. It helps me understand the way I live.

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably...

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point that we can give the universe by the way we live, by loving each other,...

After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he experienced the approach of what is called inspiration. At such moments the correlation...

In accepting and defending the social institution of slavery, the Greeks were harder-hearted than we but clearer-headed; they knew that labor as such is slavery, and that no man can feel a personal pride in...

When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others...

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne’s vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn’t care about masterpieces, or even good paintings…...

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn’t we use a little art jargon? There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate...

Take classes. Get out there and look at lots of art. Start with what you like and move a little outside of that circle, and then try to figure out what it is you don?t...

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Rather than feeling that every moment you’ve got to exert this enormous control, you can take the attitude that your job as a writer is not to control everything, but to set things in motion.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Considering the low percentage female artists represented in recognized institutions, galleries etc. I don´t pay any of these institutions attention. I simply avoid such places. I find it insulting and can´t be bothered to support...

Art will save the world. But who will save Art?

People say you have expensive tastes.My Humble reply : I appreciate fine art, and fine art is not cheap.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

Love, thou art absolute sole Lord Of life and death

Tis true what Hemingway says–if we’re lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920’s Paris and I did with the Beat poets, then youth’s dreams become a moveable feast...

Makebelieve is a writer’s best friend.

A metamorphosis… The shining butterfly of the soul from the pupa of the body. Larva, pupa, imago. An image of art.