Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn’t seem fair that I’m living for something I can’t even define.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one’s strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness and a rational outlook,...

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Why, I wondered, did people seek out portrayals of the very experiences that, in real life, would send them mad with despair? Shouldn’t art be an escape, a laugh, a comfort, a thrill?

But maybe that’s how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it’s cool.

we may say that History develops, Art stands still

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.

What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by...

Living together is an art.

The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…

It is the very essence of art,’ she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., ‘that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste....

Artistic integrity is not a guest whom one may choose not to invite to a gala. She must be the first you invite, the first you seat, the first you serve food and wine, the...

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons; we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless ‘Why?’ and ‘What next?'(“Literature, Revolution, and Entropy”)

Why I write music? Because it hurts not to.

Practice transforms a skill into an art

Water runs down hill concisely. There is no quibbling about it. It does not have to run up hill in order to be entertaining. Man has always followed its course with fascination. The soul of...

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Art could state very little – it’s whole business is to evoke responses.

There’s a very fine line between being artistic and being a dickhead – it’s like love and hate.

A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation...

Christian art today should be twentieth-century art.

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they’re born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of...

Daca schizofrenia este universala, atunci marele artist este cu adevarat cel care sparge zidul schizofrenic, ajungand in patria necunoscuta, acolo unde el nu mai apartine niciunei epoci, niciunui mediu, niciunei scoli.

You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. Anyone who expects you to has no sense of the arts.

When the travesties scattered throughout our modern art museums are set alongside the glories of ancient Greece, the Christian heart should swell with pride.

Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.

Mediocre art is far worse than bad art. Bad art does not waste our time.

I dig art. With a shovel. In the cemetery.

I saw two statues talking to each other. I didn’t hear what they were saying, perhaps because they were whispering.

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

As an artist, I’m aspiring for a Triple George—being compared to George Orwell, George Carlin, and Curious George.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind...

If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you’re talking about don’t leave a single, solitary thing...

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

Något av det viktigaste i all konst: att överlåta en anständig del åt läsaren, betraktaren, den medverkande. Det ska finnas en tom plats vid det dukade bordet. Den är hans.

The morality of art consists, for everyone, in the side that flatters its own interests. People do not like literature.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

[art] those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

All great art is a form of complaint

Some stories, some visions, demand celluloid film and what it can deliver.

Lying for lying’s sake is the inspiration behind all great art

The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.