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Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
Sep 10, 2025
Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.
Artists must be sacrificed to their art.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.
I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.
Everything you can imagine is real.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Let each man exercise the art he knows.
All art is autobiographical.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.
Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
Look at the great athletes, musician, artists, and writers. They all tap into a source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. The Seven Faces of Intention: creativity, kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and receptivity. And all seven are expressions of what I imagine that source to look like. The very fact that we exist is proof to me that the nature of that source is creative at its core. And there isn't a person reading this who does not have a gnawing sense inside that there's something they're here to do, something creative.
Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.