The Art Quotes
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.
In a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.
Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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.
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.
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.
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I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else.
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
One thing that struck me early is that you don’t put into a photograph what’s going to come out. Or, vice versa, what comes out is not what you put in.
The professional has learned that success, like happiness, comes as a by-product of work. The professional concentrates on the work and allows rewards to come or not come, whatever they like.
One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows
Innovation is an evolutionary process, so it's not necessary to be radical all the time.
To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.
I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?
What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
In a cement park across the street is this giant sculpture. It is a giant umbrella frame lying on its side. It's green. Stand under it, during a rainstorm, you'll still get wet - that's why it's art.
For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
The journey of the sun and moon is predictable. But yours, is your ultimate art.
The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.
The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.
An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.
What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person.
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
I think the short story is a very underrated art form. We know that novels deserve respect.
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
