Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce — render emotional — his audience, each time. – Robert A. Heinlein

Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudointellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce — render emotional — his audience, each time. – Robert A. Heinlein

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. – Chuck Klosterman

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you. – Chuck Klosterman

If you don’t want a generation of robots, fund the arts! – Cath Crowley

If you don’t want a generation of robots, fund the arts! – Cath Crowley

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. – John Ciardi

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. – John Ciardi

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan

Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. – Marshall McLuhan

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. – Joan Miró

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music. – Joan Miró

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. – Ansel Adams

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels about what is being photographed in the deepest sense and is thereby a true expression of what one feels about life in its entirety. – Ansel Adams

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece – Claude Monet

My garden is my most beautiful masterpiece – Claude Monet

We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we? – Roberto Bolaño

We’re artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don’t we? – Roberto Bolaño

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people–including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh–struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power generated in the creative force fields of Being and non-Being. (Beyond Religion, p. 124) – David N. Elkins

The same sensitivity that opens artists to Being also makes them vulnerable to the dark powers of non-Being. It is no accident that many creative people–including Dante, Pascal, Goethe, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Beethoven, Rilke, Blake, and Van Gogh–struggled with depression, anxiety, and despair. They paid a heavy price to wrest their gifts from the clutches of non-Being. But this is what true artists do: they make their own frayed lives the cable for the surges of power generated in the creative force fields of Being and non-Being. (Beyond Religion, p. 124) – David N. Elkins