Time and death: It’s the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It’s just what’s there. It was not something I planned to do. – Don DeLillo
The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains. – James Baldwin
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. – Albert Einstein
Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. – Spider Webb
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, ‘This is art, and you can’t do it. – Steve Martin
All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war. – Walter Benjamin
Serious art is born from serious play. – Julia Cameron
Writers remember everything…especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he’ll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar.
Art consists of the persistence of memory. – Stephen King
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way. – Mike Norton
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It’s not something that committees can do. It’s not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It’s done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world. – Robert Hughes
A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw. – Robert Henri
كنت كلما رأيتها في لباسها الفلسطيني المليء بالمزركشات والموتيفات الحية والنوار، اعترتني رغبة في أخذ الفرشاة بجنون وتغميسها في لباسها ورسم أشكال مجنونة من ألوان فستانها – واسيني الأعرج
