To create today is to create dangerously. Any publication is an act, and that act exposes one to the passions of an age that forgives nothing.

A Gift for YouI send you…A cottage retreat on a hill in Ireland. This cottage is filled with fresh flowers, art supplies, and a double-wide chaise lounge in front of a wood-burning fireplace. There is...

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Every day is a masterpiece, even if it crushes you.

That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.

Believe that you can do it cause you can do it.

Bathrooms are a great place for art.

Every great artist has the sense of provocation.

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before...

Whether I’m painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I’m not working, I’m still analyzing people.

Next time you’re off to get a new painting, bring a mirror and you’ll see right away if it’ll bring you gratification or not.

Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration—poetry, novels, music, dancing—if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.

Sehen Sie, gerade in der Kunst brauchen wir wieder eine Jugend die zu allen Problemen akitv Stellung nimmt.

Infiltrating the records of a state penitentiary as well as the state and federal court systems was much more fun than deciphering art. -Phil Roach

You don’t have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

And that’s the best we can hope for from art, you know? That it changes you for the better. That it lights up the world a little bit.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

Her excitement is contagious. She’s infusing science into the art curriculum.

Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood ‘information.’ What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera...

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have words.

WHEN we are training in the art of peace, we are not given any promises that because of our noble intentions everything will be okay.

The popular distinction between ‘constructive’ and ‘destructive’ criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To...

Remember, light and shadow never stand still.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

working is bad”. But making money is art, and working is art – and good business is the best art.

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is…like a life without pictures.

War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

The compelling thing about making art—or making anything, I suppose—is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances. Circe, Nimbue, Artemis, Athena, all...

You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life– a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

Imagination is Everything!

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

And even if something had once been committed to paper, did it mean that it was still true? Always true? Unlike the relative permanence of paint, words were temporal. You uttered them and they evanesced,...

The Painting is not shit,’ said Lucien.’I know,’ said Henri. ‘That was just part of the subterfuge. I am of royal lineage; subterfuge is one of the many talents we carry in our blood, along...

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that’s a chair, that’s a table, and yet at the same time, It’s a miracle, it’s...

Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.

In its confounding of the logic that maintains terms like high and low, or base and sacred as polar opposites, it is this play of the contradictory that allows one to think the truth that...

We…believe that art is religious, because it is one of man’s highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,’ he said, ‘all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw...

done,” and let it stand alone in its fullest meaning. Things are not done beautifully. The beauty is an integral part of their being done.

The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane...

The arts can sharpen the vision, quicken the intellect, preserve the memory, activate the conscience, enhance the understanding and refresh the language.