That’s what dreams are really like, you know? They’re not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most of the time, dreams look just like the normal world. It’s...

In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or...

Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the...

He thought it happier to be dead, to die for beauty, than live for bread

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

Blank walls are a shared canvas and we’re all artists.

I can’t change the fact that my paintings don’t sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

While art should never become exclusionary and elitist, any culture which fails to support its artists is only contributing to its own impoverishment. (Beyond Religion, p. 122)

Our art is made in cities like New York by people who are running from other places. They feel themselves as misfits who were trapped in dead-end suburbs. They hated high school. Their parents did...

They lived off each other’s hypocrisy, fuelling a worthless market of trash.

Whenever I listen to an artist or an art historian I’m struck by how much they see and how much they know–and how much I don’t.Good art writing should therefore do at least two things....

I like a girl with a substantial bottom,’ said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

And now as if the cleaning and the scrubbing and the scything and the mowing had drowned it there rose that half-heard melody, that intermittent music which the ear half catches but lets fall; a...

Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being...

There is a kind of counter-criticism that seeks to expand the work of art, by connecting it, opening up its meanings, inviting in the possibilities. A great work of criticism can liberate a work of...

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than...

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

When you forget about the how, go back to the why.

As an artist, her imagination isn’t fettered by the constraints of reality.

If I knew what to doI’d do more than write a song for you

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent. Only the mediocre, pushing forward a commonplace view of life in a commonplace language, can...

Gamers can feel when developers are passionate about their games. They can smell it like a dog smells fear. Don’t be afraid to hold onto your unique vision: just be aware that it may not...

You collect art: you must know that the miniature artists, at the end of careers spent painting the tiniest, most exacting details that no one would ever look at, would often put their eyes out...

Entertainment is about the way things should be. Art is about the way they are.

Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Fine art refers to an accomplished or advanced skill being used to testify and reveal the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the creator. There is no art more exquisite than the work of the Master...

Explaining the unknown should be left to science, questions of good and bad behavior can be answered by ethics, and inspiration is often found in the arts. There’s no longer a need for the social...

Here is the world. Don’t be afraid for wonderful and terrible things will happen. Simply remember to breath.

The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet.

But real life is not art.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

It’s true. The storms won’t last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.

El artista es hijo de sus tiempos, pero desdichado de él si, a la vez, es su alumno o incluso su favorito.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Growing up, the only class I didn’t doodle in was Art class, because there I’d get to spend the whole time drawing.

My hand inside a glove is like a painting in a frame, and should be insured as such. The things my hand makes have immense value, so how much more valuable is the thing that...

I am the Fruit Basket of Love. You should do a painting of how I feel.

cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.

Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

First, psychotherapy is an art. It is not a science (the human-beings-are-laboratory-rats mentality of the behaviorist notwithstanding). A friend of mine, a philosopher of esthetics, defines art as: anything that people treat as art. So...

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.