The Art Quotes
Art invites us to become explorers and excavators of our vast internal landscapes, discovering new terrain and digging deep into the past to unearth forgotten experiences and emotion.
Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
Building positive customer experiences will help create passionate customers who will spread your message on their behalf - almost like an evangelist.
As an observer of human nature, let's just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.
Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you cintribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go.
Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")
Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place where "bizarreness masqueraded as creativity.
My mom told me once that Wyatt loved her the way a boy will love his mother, but I loved her the way an artist loves another. Jo taught me what that meant.
What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life?
When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.
He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.
One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.
No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.
Art for Art’s Sake is for the well fed. The well fed are all the babies in cradles and my kitty along with them, and I am happy if my writings are for my kitty.
At least I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had. Not to preach to them, but to give it to them if they cared to hear it.
Positive thinking relates to an art of reasoning with the quality of hope for a better future either in the face of difficulties or in the presence of abundance of opportunities.
A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.
What people say realistic, may not necessarily the same as what we think. At the end we will know which one Is ourselves, which one is not.
But if what can exist does exist, is memory invention or is invention memory?
Look up. This is the season of shooting stars. Light, two thousand years old, still dazzling. Let me see your face. Your face lit up by twenty centuries.
I think therefore I am. Does that mean 'I feel therefore I'm not'? But only through feeling can I get at thinking.
Time: Change experienced and observed. Time measured by the angle of the turning earth as it rotates through its axis. The earth turning slowly on its spit under the fire of the sun.
I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.
Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.
Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.
Half of all the great art and literature in existence went unrecognised during the lifetimes of its creators.
InsomniaI wonderIf those talks matterFew done in the clarity of dayOr the manyDone at 3 a.m. in the morning
I grow weary of the loveThat lasts for a nightWhen it should be thereThe next sunrise
Get thee to the novel! - the novel, that word-woven submarine, piloted by intimation and intuition, that will dive you to the deeps of the heart's maelstrom.
The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much ‘relevance’. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.
We have the power to shape our lives, by the way we think. Only that to have a progressive life, we must train ourselves into thinking in a certain way.
I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.
Literature is the aesthetic exploitation of language
Literature matters because it is how humanity, with all its losses and joys, can become a work of art.
Orlando said it was important for scientists to have minds kept open by literature, and souls touched by the creativity of art.
All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.
Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.
The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.
I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.
