The world of technology has made it easier for people to get in touch with their modern muses regardless of the genres that they are trying to utilize and even if they create a new...

eloquence.” A few centuries later, Saint Augustine wrestled with the value of eloquence, associating it with his pagan background and training in Greek rhetoric while simultaneously employing it winsomely in his Christian writings. Such suspicion...

Later it would occur to him that a new life – to be a new man – would require him to take chances, to act on whim

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century.

The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

No respect for beauty – that was characteristic of today’s society. The work of the great masters were at most employed as ironic references or in advertising. Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam ” where you...

Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don’t think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for...

No matter how hard they try, they’ll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.

A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Artist is not human, but humanity.

I asked Geertrui the other day what she thought love is-real love, true love. She said that for her real love is observing another person and being observed by another person with complete attention. If...

My heart balloons with admiration for these talented artists, which I so desperately want to be

Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else–that’s how you’ll get ahead.

I will always know the glory of the beautiful and rare, as they will know security from labour and prayer. As they will hear the laughter of the children they gave life, I will know...

Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time — without the desire to reach...

You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expressionist.

La única comunicación adecuada con el espectador es ésta: permanecer fiel a sí mismo. Sin concesión alguna a ese ochenta por ciento de espectadores de cine que, por motivos indescifrables, exigen de nosotros, los directores,...

Telle une pierre philosophale, l’authenticité semble ainsi avoir le pouvoir de transformer en or l’assemblage de toile et de pigments que constitue un tableau.

The importance of resolution over craft is one of the most important shifts in art making besides the creation of Photoshop.

Make art and live simply.

je dis civilisé le peuple qui compose ses danses, malgré qu’il ne soit pour les danses ni récolte ni greniers. Alors que je dis brut le peuple qui aligne sur ses étagères des objets, fussent-ils...

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

Sholem [a painter] was saying that freedom, for him, is having the technical facility to be able to execute whatever he wants, just whatever image he has in his mind. But that’s not freedom! That’s...

Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn’t know.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

His art springs out of bubbling underground necessity, as if he’s somehow dipping himself into the river that gave him life; he’s making dream material visible.

Being an innovator is something that most people just won’t get. It’s still yummy doing this thang over here though. The older I get I’ve come to place where I just love to create so...

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

One picks one’s way about through the glass and aluminum doors, the receptionists’ smiles, the lunches with too much alcohol, the openings with more, the mobs of people desperately trying to define good taste in...

Art is personal, criticism shouldn’t be.

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.(Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball)

When Coleridge tried to define beauty, he returned always to one deep thought; beauty, he said, is unity in variety! Science is nothing else than the search to discover unity in the wild variety of...

The Art of War.

Art does not exist only to entertain — but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

There are enough ideas, images, symbols, and experiences in your head already to work with for a lifetime. It’s a little like having a car with an unpredictable battery, though. Sometimes you get in and...

Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He’s always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.

Edward genially enough did not disagree with what I said, but he didn’t seem to admit my point, either. I wanted to press him harder so I veered close enough to the ad hominem to...

The heart of [J.G.] Ballard’s vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.

In portraiture I look for people that I recognise – ‘Look, it’s Uncle Tony’ – or for the faces of film stars. The Madame Tussaud’s school of art appreciation. In realist works I look for...

Never judge a work of art by its defects

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

Love is fragile at best and often a burden or something that blinds us. It’s fodder for poets and song writers and they build it into something beyond human capacity. Falling in love means enrolling...

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. So it must be on every original artist to some degree, on me to a marked degree.(from notes on ‘Heraclitean Fire’)