Art Quotes - Page 6

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river's flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I realized I was God... or an artist and a writer.

It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult.

Perhaps what matters is not the human pain or joy at all but, rather, the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable way.

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves - and often beautiful.

Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

Acceptance and validation are the fuels of the future.

Speed is not always a constituent to great work, the process of creation should be given time and thought.

The central point of the work of art is the work as origin, the point which cannot be reached, yet the only one which is worth reaching.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

I celebrate myself, I paint and dance and sing myself, and what I assume you will assume, for every atom as of me as good belongs to dreamy You. I am a song. I am a poem. I am a soil and a gem. I am a stargate and a voyage. I am the ocean and your soul.

Surviving a stupor of madness,
drunk silence 'have we not fingered the foulest wounds and left them unhealed ?

I must kill some memories,
the heavy ones first and after
make righteous of my un-even soul.

I have witness the stars brighter
than a poet can create a simpleton world. Shall we write 'until death do us part.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART.

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

Writing an unwritten thing, read the unreadable.

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures.