You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to expla…
Hidden away amongst Aschenbach’s writing was a passage directly asserting …
Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
It is always necessary to acknowledge creative injuries and grieve them. O…
Without empathy and love there is no morality, no altruism, no compassion …
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interest…
But nobody is visually naive any longer. We are cluttered with images, and…
That's the beauty of art--we strive for perfection but never achieve it. T…
Whenever you are in transition it is always important to choose the words …
I wish I had a dollar for every time someone said, "Me? No, I'm not creati…
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object …
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded…
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and d…
Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life’s journey and with …
Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.
The most important key to bettering yourself - is just that "yourself" - (…
Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothin…
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
You have to have time to be sorry for yourself to be a good Abstract Expre…
Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.
Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it…
Art cannot save the world, but it does help you understand the world insid…
Art fuels the fire inside me.
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly awa…
I wonder whether Art has a higher function than to make me feel appreciat…
Gardening always has been an art, essentially.
The only way to find art is to lose touch with reality.
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitut…
Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act…
That's what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, whi…
Ok! So that's the spice. Typical gossips for or against a qualified newcom…
The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibi…
If your heart is broken, make art with the pi
This, then, is what counts: a lightning reaction which has no further need…
To fall in love with pain is to fall in love with art.
I romanticize life the way artists see scenery or a dreamer gazes up at th…
If you ask me I think the greatest breakthrough each and everyone of us ne…
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, a…
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration…
drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow …
Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtai…
Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what …
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt …
I see art in everything. Your shoes. That car. This coffee cup. It's art i…
Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the fa…
The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses betwee…
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleepe…
Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a fri…
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express thems…
A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.
I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underesti…
Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.
Long before something happens in our life, it happened in our heart.
I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulne…
Don't go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other wo…
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unav…
Music gives color to the air of the moment.
Abolish music prejudices. Form opinions and love music for itself, not its…
How long does it take to see something, to know someone? If you put in yea…
I paint the stuff I see when my eyes are closed
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for sh…
We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consume…
He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak…
Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual mean…
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations …
Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no subs…
When you painted on earth – at least in your earlier days – it was because…
We tend to think that what matters is decided by society or culture or rel…
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—…
Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to …
However my mother had once said, ‘When you go to art school, you’ll find e…
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do…
Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment pile…
Art is a harmony parallel with nature
What had, moments ago, appeared a dangerous gambit, now seemed an elegant …
Art is I science is we.
Those who like to interpret historical facts symbolically may recognize in…
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting wh…
Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we…
I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came …
Advertising is fundamentally persuasion and persuasion happens to be not a…
With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoi…
They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literat…
When Jesus was wrapping up his days on earth, he didn't tell us to go to c…
I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.
Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry i…
Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself
He couldn't imagine using the word 'rewarding' about a work of art - for i…
The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to…
What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity an…
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of …
They were both poles apartOne a ready masterpieceAnother an unfinished art…
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, …
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and a…
A good artist should laugh often!