The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday’s canvas with today’s paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.. – Andrew Davidson
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction. – Toni Morrison
A storyteller who provided us with such a profusion of details would rapidly grow maddening. Unfortunately, life itself often subscribes to this mode of storytelling, wearing us out with repetition, misleading emphases and inconsequential plot lines. It insists on showing us Bardak Electronics, the saftey handle in the car, a stray dog, a Christmas card and a fly that lands first on the rim and then in the centre of the ashtray.
Which explains how the curious phenomenon whereby valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress; they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments, and thus, without either lying or embellishing, they lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting wooliness of the present. – Alain de Botton
You’ve always lived a life of pretense, not a real life– a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. – Thomas Bernhard
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. – Paul Cézanne
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. – Joan Miró
Create a guidebook of creative dreams
You can use a blank book or just blank paper clipped together. Put photographs or scraps from magazines in that represent your creative dreams. Draw, scribble, or paint in between the images. Make a list of creative dreams you’ve thought of or admire in others. – SARK
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer
Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies. – Demetri Martin
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic we see a new meaning in it. – Anaïs Nin
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. – Charles Nodier
