Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. – Wayne Thiebaud
Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus. – Wayne Thiebaud
It’s impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. – Liam O’Flaherty
It’s impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. – Liam O’Flaherty
That’s creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. – Zoe Whittall
That’s creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway. – Zoe Whittall
Without a doubt, I must read, all the books I’ve read about. See the artworks hung on hooks, that I have only, seen in books. – Lang Leav
Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I’ve read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. – Lang Leav
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting. – Peter Shaffer
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. – Julian Barnes
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. – Julian Barnes
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again. – Mark Rothko
It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one’s arms again. – Mark Rothko
The best art always comes unbidden. – Christopher Pike
The best art always comes unbidden. – Christopher Pike
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
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
Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. – Charles Baxter
Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream. – Charles Baxter
Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Art isn’t meaningless… It is in itself. It isn’t in that it tries to make life less so. – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. – Albert Camus
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. – Albert Camus