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Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. You know what makes you stronger? When people treat you & your art with dignity.
Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
The art of conversation is to be prompt without being stubborn, to refute without argument, and to clothe great matters in a motley garb.
You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.
Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
I'm painting an idea not an ideal. Basically I'm trying to paint a structured painting full of controlled, and therefore potent, emotion.
Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.
Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.
Creativity in any form stimulates creativity in every form, music, arts, literature... I find inspiration in anything. It's all the same.
I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: "Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar."
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts.
All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and it's wonderful.
Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
O majesty unspeakable and dread!Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,Too little for our heart.
Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.
We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.
I think great art should play a part in the ordinary man's life, don't you? It can make his existence so much richer and more meaningful.
Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.
There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.
If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.
For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.
To me, movies are valuable as an art form and as a wonderful means of popular entertainment. But I think movies have gone terribly wrong.
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
True Music, like all true Art, is an experience to be shared, not judged, for praise cannot make it better, as blame cannot make it worse
Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to.
Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness, make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots.
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.
When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer, you beat cancer by how you live, why you live and in the manner in which you live.
When you get questions that annoy you the art is answering them differently. If you're bored with it, then everyone will be bored with it.
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
Our one goal is to give the world a taste of peace, friendship and understanding. Through the visual arts, the art of celebration of life.
I feel like I have had to catch up to the art I've made, and learn from the protagonists I have written, especially in relation to gender.
The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.