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The Cro-Magnons lived with fear and amazement in a culture of Arrival, facing many mysteries. Their culture lasted for some 20,000 years.
Hope is not a form of guarantee; it's a form of energy, and very frequently that energy is strongest in circumstances that are very dark.
Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.
On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.
Robert Rauschenberg was not a giant of American art; he was the giant. No American created so many aesthetic openings for so many artists.
Your lips, beloved, are like a honeycomb: honey and milk are under the tongue. And the smell of your clothes is like the smell of my home.
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
Without the perfect sympathy with the animals around them, no gentleman's education, no Christian education, could be of any possible use.
What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.
Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface.
The aesthetic experience has to be given. And beauty is a regular experience of every person - every person who is not clinically depressed!
When you want to get married, ask the universe for a man who has every quality money cannot buy. Then go about to create your own prosperity.
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.
Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant.
A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.
The only way to understand these difficult parts of the Bible, or even to approach them with safety, is first to read and obey the easy ones.
We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.
A painter knows what to do by the tug of the brush as it pulls through a mixture of oils, and by the look of coloured slurries on the palette.
In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we don't know what we're seeing, we overreact.
John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.
In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.
We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.
Many things happened in the sixties, but the period is no more significant, better, or more 'political' than today. It's time to turn the page.
I used to lie down on the grass and draw the blades as they grew - until every square foot of meadow, or mossy bank, became a possession to me.
Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul.
God intends no man to live in this world without working, but it seems to me no less evident that He intends every man to be happy in his work.
There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless.
Collage is a demonstration of the many becoming the one, with the one never fully resolved because of the many that continue to impinge upon it.
The past is the one thing we are not prisoners of. We can do with the past exactly what we wish. What we can't do is to change its consequences.
All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.
There is no music in a “rest” that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
Childhood often holds a truth with its feeble finger, which the grasp of manhood cannot retain,--which it is the pride of utmost age to recover.
Wise laws and just restraints are to a noble nation not chains, but chains of mail, -- strength and defense, though something of an incumbrance.
Gossip is the currency of the discourse, so you should shut up about yourself. Never confess, never explain, never apologize, and never complain.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
Advertising is not merely an assembly of competing messages; it is a language itself which is always being used to make the same general proposal