Art Quotes - Page 9

Art will save the world. But who will save Art?

The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.

In other words, if your boy is a poet, horse manure can only mean flowers to him; which is, of course, what horse manure has always been about.

A good journal entry- like a good song, or sketch, or photograph- ought to break up the habitual and life away the film that forms over the eye, the finger, the tongue, the heart. A good journal entry ought to be a love letter to the world.

Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.

Tattoos are a permanent commitment of passion

If you're not creating, you're disintegrating.

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.

She felt she had been created by the demands of others, by their insatiable appetite for something beyond ordinary life. They craved a world without death and they had spotted her, in their hunger, like wolves alert to any poor sheep that might stray from the fold and stand gazing ignorantly up at the stars.

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression?

Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece.

The perfect song neither ends nor begins. It is always playing. Remember to stop and listen.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

File Under General Wisdom: You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner?

The master has failed more times than the beginner has tried.

We can’t worry about meaning. Ari proposed to us that meaning is a consumer item. Some people manufacture it through religion, philosophy, nationhood, politics, and some people buy it. But an artist is not a manufacturer.

For me, art that's alive and urgent is about what it is to be a human being.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.