art

what you respond to in any work of art is the artist's struggle against his or her limitations

Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?

Venice, it's temples and palaces did seem like fabrics of enchantment piled to heaven.

What has seven editions (the book had already gone into no less) got to do with the value of it? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself _ a voice answering a voice.

With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.

All forms of art are parallel expressions. Writing is not unlike painting or other artistic endeavors. Each artistic endeavor is an expression of the mystery of the world. The job of the artist is to deepen that mystery, express reverence for the mystery of life, and explore the enigmatic aspects of human nature.

That kind of pursuit is not beneficial to mankind: art for self aggrandizement at the cost of love.

The world concerns me only in so far as I owe it a certain debt and duty, so to speak, because I have walked this earth for 30 years, and out of gratitude would like to leave some memento in the form of drawings and paintings__ot made to please this school or that, but to express a genuine human feeling.

A blackbird doesn't change its tune to suit the times.

When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art...and you're the artist and no one else paints your life for you.

Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration!

There is no such thing as reproduction, only acts of production.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

Making a whole is very important. Most people paint things and forget the whole.

Thus, for an adequate interpretation of the differences found between the classes or within the same class as regards their relation to the various legitimate arts, painting, music, theatre, literature etc., one would have to analyse fully the social uses, legitimate or illegitimate, to which each of the arts, genres, works or institutions considered lends itself. For example, nothing more clearly affirms one's 'class', nothing more infallibly classifies, than tastes in music.

Try and make them understand that while artists can recycle their suffering in their art, I didn't know what to do with mine.

My day begins at dawn as I take my cup of strong black espresso outside to watch the sunrise. I learned this ritual from my mother, who worked in a bread shop. Bakers are the great philosophers of the world, mostly because they have to get up early. When the world is quiet, great art is created - or, at the very least, conceptualized. Now is the moment to sketch, make notes, and dream.

An invisible, yet active current of mental energy, underscores any book as well as any other form of artistic creation. A creative burst of psychological energy ignites any creative project. The emotional energy that underlies the artistic work propels it forward endowing it with articulation, texture, rhythm, and movement. When the expressive energy of the artist flags, the work comes to a stopping point and it takes on its final composition.