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Everything you can imagine is real.
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.
I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
A picture is a poem without words.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.
Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
Creativity takes courage.
All art is but imitation of nature.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
I paint with shapes.
I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Life is short, the art long.
We have art in order not to die of the truth.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
One eye sees, the other feels.
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth.
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
The human body is the best work of art.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Nature is a haunted house - but Art - is a house that tries to be haunted.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is the proper task of life.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.
In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
I really believe there are things nobody would see if I didn't photograph them.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
He took his pain and turned it into something beautiful. Into something that people connect to. And that's what good music does. It speaks to you. It changes you.
Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
All art is quite useless.
Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbour.
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.
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.
We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
Absurdity and anti―absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
The goal of art was the vital expression of self.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Art is the daughter of freedom.
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
There is nothing new in art except talent.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
A blank canvas... has unlimited possibilities.
The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.
Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
In art, the obvious is a sin.
Imagination governs the world.
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Art is what you can get away with.
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
That's why people listen to music or look at paintings. To get in touch with that wholeness.
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
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.
Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet - it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write the books you want to read, build the products you want to use – do the work you want to see done.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter.
'Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?'
Here's to freedom, cheers to art. Here's to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.
Painting is by nature a luminous language.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
True alchemy lies in this formula: 'Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse'.
Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Music is an outburst of the soul.
Love art in yourself, and not yourself in art.
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.
Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
All good art is an indiscretion.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
An idea is salvation by imagination
Take your broken heart, make it into art.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
You gotta know when to be lazy. Done correctly, it's an art form that benefits everyone.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn't pull the trigger?
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.
I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.
Creativity is an act of defiance.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is not in the eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.
I don't think it was pain that made "Vincent Van Gogh" great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
All great art is born of the metropolis.
Every form of art is another way of seeing the world. Another perspective, another window. And science –that's the most spectacular window of all. You can see the entire universe from there.
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
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.
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art - we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
I just do art because I'm ugly and there's nothing else for me to do.
Some people are born to make great art and others are born to appreciate it. Don't you think? It is a kind of talent in itself, to be an audience, whether you are the spectator in the gallery or you are listening to the voice of the world's greatest soprano. Not everyone can be the artist. There have to be those who witness the art, who love and appreciate what they have been privileged to see.
Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece.
If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.
When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish.... but that's only if it's done properly.
I would like to paint the way a bird sings.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist.
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
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.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.
Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort.
Actors in any capacity, artists of any stripe, are inspired by their curiosity, by their desire to explore all quarters of life, in light and in dark, and reflect what they find in their work. Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
Everyone tries to make his life a work of art.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
The business of art lies just in this―to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.
Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
Never judge a work of art by its defects.
Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer; art is everything else.
When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.
Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety.
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.
We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth.
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Expectation. That is the true soul of art. If you can give a man more than he expects, then he will laud you his entire life. If you can create an air of anticipation and feed it properly, you will succeed.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.
"When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning―human meaning, that is―is defined by them. You have to admit that."
All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.
I think imagination is at the heart of everything we do. Scientific discoveries couldn't have happened without imagination. Art, music, and literature couldn't exist without imagination. And so anything that strengthens imagination, and reading certainly does that, can help us for the rest of our lives.
Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in return, ever.
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.
Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
Art is anything you can get away with.
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.
If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!
What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few.
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Every true artist is at war with the world.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
Some don't even watch art with their eyes nor with their mind, but with their ears, ever since they judge art by the sound of money.
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.... things I had no words for.
A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.
A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.
The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it.... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.
Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation.... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce - render emotional - his audience, each time.
Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art.
Art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.
The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people really talk, make paltry human enterprises seem important. Singers and musicians show us human beings making sounds far more lovely than human beings really make. Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on. Actually, practically nothing is going on.
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Art begins.... when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.'
The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.
I remember growing up, saying you're an artist it sounds pretentious but now it's one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.
An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
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.
Art is science made clear.
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
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, with all its foreboding, the voice of love and the voice of art.
I thought clay must feel happy in the good potter's hand.
art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories. They're like weeds, always finding their way up.
Art never comes from happiness.
Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
Art is vice. You don't wed it, you rape it.
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
The greatest art belongs to the world. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Trust your instincts. Do not be afraid to go against what you were taught, or what you were told to see or believe. Every person, every set of eyes, has the right to the truth.
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money
Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
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 evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Art is a process, not a product.
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