The Art Quotes

Art becomes art only when it’s shared with others.

Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.

Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.

To those that are not accustomed to it the inner beauty appears as ugliness because humanity in general inclines to the outer and knows nothing of the inner.

God’s creation is the greatest of all arts.

An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself so completely that only his work remains!

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

An artist is one who has mastered the art of dissolving himself through his works!

Music is energy, emotion, expression, escapism, enlightenment. Music is so much more than just entertainment.

I'll write about my past but I won't talk about it. I'll turn it into art if I can, but I won't talk about it.

Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull.

An artist is like a handicaphe needs his art to carry himself.

Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!

Nobody is better than me.

I'm the greatest living thing in the universe.

The harder you work, the more you produce, the more you create, the more you will be rejected. By people who never created shit.

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

They were both poles apartOne a ready masterpieceAnother an unfinished art...

Just a beginner, but he learned so fast. Everything came so damn easy to him. Not true. The hard things cam easy. But the easy things he found impossibly hard.

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

Choose only one master — Nature.

There's a mysterious alter ego in everyone. Some call it hallucination, some call it art.

What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.

Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

I can't keep myself from creativity. Ideas flash like lightning burning my bones. It must flow out of my hands or it will burst me apart.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

Be a good reader first, if you wish to become a good writer.

When you find your passion, turn a deaf ear to the naysayers and follow your dreams.

Spend one more day in pursuit of art that only you can produce, and somewhere, someone is envying your courage to do just that.

Putting our art out there is one of the biggest risks we can take. It's a special kind of vulnerability. It takes guts to be an artist.

I've realized I don't need to keep looking for my path. I'm already on it. I just need to trust where it leads.

As artists, it is our job to question the rules and ask if they are relevant or outdated, necessary or arbitrary, helpful or oppressive.

Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them.

If your art is calling to you, its doing so for a reason. You are feeling a pull toward something for which your soul is yearning.

...a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit.

It's ever so fun and fulfilling to be clever, but more lasting and effective to be consistent.

Never let your goals or convictions get in the way of living your life. It's not about who dies with more, it's about who lived the most.

In times of trouble, people need artists. We create those spaces where their own pain and worry and sadness can rest, and where their broken hearts can hope again.

As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.

We tend to think that what matters is decided by society or culture or religion or our peers, but no one can say what truly matters except us.

If you haven't proclaimed it in your own life, do it now. Say, "I am an artist.

Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.

if nothing endswhere do we begin?

Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

sacred knowledge of the cosmos seems to be hidden within our souls and is shown within our artwork and creative expressions.

One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critiques. Just full-on absorption mode.