Art Quotes - Page 10

Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

The adversary humbly cloaked in its fine smile 'eyes devoid of kindness, speaking gentle its knife secretly hidden.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.

You can save many lives but the most courageous act is to save your authentic-self.

The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

When I think of the wisest people I know, they share one defining trait: curiosity. They turn away from the minutiae of their lives-and focus on the world around them. They are motivated by the desire to explore the unfamiliar. They are drawn toward what they don't understand.

Every artist takes their final work to the grave.

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

You don't create or write to be successful; you don't create or paint to be famous or to increase your wealth. You do all of these things because your soul is calling you to do them.

I wear the universe backwards.
I imagine putting stars in my
coffee, and sugar in the sky.
I imagine going fishing in clouds,
and watching the sun hide
behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing
with my imagination to even tip toe
with reality for a second.

They say I'm going mad.
They're right.

The core of your
true self
is never lost.
Let go of all the
pretending and
the becoming
you've done just
to belong.
Curl up with your
rawness and come home.
You don't have to
find yourself;
you just have to
let yourself in.

The sky never falls with the rain.
It is never weighed down by all that
it carries. It takes all of its anchors
and turns them into stars.
Learn from this.

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

What is the finding of love,
but a voice answering a voice?

Life is so beautiful and so short
that anything that makes me feel
less than too much is nothing at all.

I think... the most brilliant thing about being a writer,is that if you don't like the way the world is, you can create your own.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.