He who works with his hands is a laborer.He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence.

Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a poster about nothing other than itself is not Graphic Design, it’s … makin’ ART.

If science took my IQ and spread it evenly among the world’s population, like mental mayonnaise, we’d have more art, less war, and higher cholesterol.

For me, the subject of the picture is always more important than the picture.

My favorite color on canvas is nudity.

I had a dream about you. You were trying to perfect the art of sexual intercourse, and I offered you the use of one of my statues to practice on. Artists have to stick together,...

Is something art just because a museum hangs it on their wall? Are you networking just because you’re standing in a crowded room?

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.

The artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word. He must heed only the call that arises within him from three strong voices: the voice of death,...

The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility….

When my words are concealedWith lies and disguises, truth and beyondInsecurities in the veil of trustBetrayal in bounds of liesIt’s just the charm of words darlingGiving the illusion of happiness inside misery

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, it wants to have nothing further to do with the object, as such, and believes...

The painting has a life of its own

And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

My father took me to see this film in 1950, when I was eight years old. And I’ve never forgotten it. I wouldn’t know how to begin to explain what this film has meant to...

Dalin must have whiffed the anarch in me, a man with no ties to state or society. Still, he was unable to sense an autonomy that puts up with these forces as objective facts but...

An artist’s work never leads anywhere except to the unknown.

A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective,of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge.

The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel told her that she was...

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light.

I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am...

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly…and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

L’art est justifié dans la mesure où il ajoute à la vie juste ce qui lui manque pour être plus vraie qu’elle-même.

A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist...

The point of art is to inspire you to create your own.

Before, I could only guess of who I was. Now, thanks to my art, I know who I am

I saw a painting once where the artist had actually done that–signed his work in blood. … When I saw that, I thought it was as if the man who had painted the picture wanted...

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d...

The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can....

If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.

Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things … Keep your eyes open, your ears open … Trace difficulties.

[in the true mad north] of introspection,where ‘falcons of the inner eye’dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life’s memory of existence.

Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless...

Art is beyond the enmity! That’s why you can always love the art of your enemy, even though you hate him!

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

As useful as an unhappy artist. As useless as a happy philosopher.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.