What Is Art Quotes

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

Do you write novels?" I said."Novels, Lord no, " she said. "I can't even stay married.

That's how it is with art. Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning are incapable of such writing.

I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration.

A novel is no different than graffiti in a bathroom stall, it's just more pretentious.

It's a finger snapping kind of day.

Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing.

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has its price-tag on.

Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

Art is the overflow of emotion into action.

As I write, My fingers tap tap the keys the way Ravi Shankar's fingers pluck and strum the strings of his sitar.

The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

Never judge a work of art by its defects

Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

If a picture paints a thousand words, then a let a picture inspire a thousand words.

Još uvijek silno vjerujem u umjetnost kao medikament!

Art builds upon art, builds upon art...nothing is purely original. We're all inspired by something...or someone. It's a never-ending chain of ideas...and it's magical.

It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see.

Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.

I cut fake people faster than Bugatti reaches its 100 miles speed. I often tell myself, this is called "Art of Living".

Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.

Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.

Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out.

What should be boundless is one's love of life, not one's love of art or knowledge.

Good heart does not produce science or even art, but knowledge does, intellect does and absolutely expertise does.

Any impossibility turned into a possibility is magic.

Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science.

A walk with nature awakens the mind of creativity.

The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them

Dream big as you can and shoot for the stars, but get started even if its small baby steps, they count!

We are capable of learning any art.

The one great art is that of making a complete human being of oneself.

Freedom comes from focus, focus brings freedom. Focus on fear you will always be in prison, focus on faith and is nothing the world can keep you knocked down.

Dear Lord please show me what really matters so that I may be able to determine what is distraction and God's direction in my life.

If God can help us locate demands, He can also help us locate the leaks.

Long before something happens in our life, it happened in our heart.

What starts in the heart doesn't stay in the heart, it either turn into action or words.

The enemies agenda is destruction, his strategy is division and his tactics is on little differences. Mind you he is not going to be happy until he sees you divided.

Do you know where your breakthrough begins? Your breakthrough begins where your excuses ends.

The forgiveness of God flows through me and because I am forgiven, I can forgive.

There is no where that life problem can take you that God's presence cannot reach you. There is nothing that people can do to you that can keep God from getting to you.

You have a standing invitation to experience God's presence but you have to pay attention because attention creates access.