If we can’t, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

When I see individuals so passionate for their chosen field, I feel a very strong sense of belonging. Passion unites us – not just every writer and every chef but every musician, every artist, every...

We put on our walls what we think is beautiful or inspiring, and if others think that it is manufactured or shallow, then they need not have it on their walls.

Happiness is an art and the one who knows this art lives happily even if they don’t have anything.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

This place is alive,” Sunni said in wonder. “Things are moving. Inside a painting.

Each time I glanced into the rearview mirror, the black around my eyes was bigger and darker. Every once in a while Tom and I would look at each other with a silent acknowledgement that...

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

Whether you dance, draw, make music, shoot field goals, build houses, tune engines, or sit around all day watching television, you are an artist. Your single greatest work of art is your self. As with...

There’s no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

How promising today’s generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I’d like to see these kids...

The greatest artists express their inner self; an artist paints her rage; a writer pens his fear; a dancer expresses her sadness through movement; and a musician’s loneliness echoes in his performance.

Art has a voice – let it speak.

none of my art is based on how others think i should have done it.

Rare and powerful harmonies exist,Shaping both scent and contour in a flower.Thus brilliance lies unseen by us until,Beneath the chisel, it blazes in the diamond.And thus do images of fleeting vision,Drifting above like cloud-forms in...

[…] a familiar art historical narrative […] celebrates the triumph of the expressive individual over the collective, of innovation over tradition, and autonomy over interdependence. […] In fact, a common trope within the modernist tradition...

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

… but I believe that music can change a life, because it changed mine.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

Everyone has their own ways of expression. I believe we all have a lot to say, but finding ways to say it is more than half the battle.

Concentrate on a single feature – as, build all toward one eye – make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri)

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching.

A not complete unit or a new unit. The elements in the 3 parts should neither fit nor not fit together.One would like not to be led. Avoid the idea of a puzzle which could...

The reason people are so moved by art and why artists tend to take it all so seriously is that if they are real and true they come to the painting with everything they know...

The first step – especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money – the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the...

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often...

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn’t creak.

The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery

You could appreciate the beauty of the world by trying to paint it.

An author’s extraliterary utterance (blunt information), prenovel or postnovel, may infiltrate journalism; it cannot touch the novel itself. Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first,...

And what does he feel?””He feels uneasy. A little afaid. Angry. Oddly, a hint of pride.””Good,” Henry said. “ANd where are you?””Backstage.”Henry shook his head gravely. “THere’s no such thing as backstage. The play begins,...

There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things? They are not facts, they do not improve our business skills, our techniques...

Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.

We are often unaware of the gradual decline and the erosion in our lives but not unaware of the gnawing feeling it brings.

I like “Julie Gold’s song “From a Distance”. Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer’s eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for...

I know great art when someone doesn’t wash their hands after making it. And not only did Duchamp not wash his hands, but he didn’t even flush!

I made art out of all the phone numbers on napkins I’ve had over the years. So it was just one napkin, and I wiped my mouth with it after I was done.

Making art can be a mystical, spiritual experience. Sort of like golfing on water, which I haven’t done, because I’m more Michael Phelps and less Michael Phelps.

By challenging the notion of what art is, Duchamp became a great artist. Also, Duchamp was a champion of Men’s Bathroom Attendants everywhere.

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

The music of hers that we’re doing is very simple, almost like folk songs, definitely not high art. She wrote more sophisticated things, including an opera, but 90 percent of her music was destroyed in...

I am sure that it was only because Michael Angelo was engaged in the ancient and honourable occupation of lying in bed that he ever realised how the roof of the Sistine Chapel might be...

I like the confusion you get between science and religion … that’s where belief lies and art as well.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

Don’t ask me what it means; ask me what it felt.