The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.
Every perception of color is an illusion, we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.
Kaur is, in industry parlance, a hack. And while most of us who write for a living believe ourselves to be hacks, at least most of us don’t run around saying the ultimate goal of our work is to be blown up to poster size.
I suppose an aesthetics-first approach to poetry is the perfect strategy for an aesthetics-first platform.
A master-piece … may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as…
I still feel that poetry is not medicine — it’s an X-ray. It helps you see the wound and understand it.
My favorite symbols were those which I didn’t understand.
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
At the end of the day, the way people are finding things are through their friends sharing something or via a search. So if you can think about as an artist, what are people searching for and making art around that.
The internet has become one big Xerox machine.
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.
I paint what I see and not what others like to see.
Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?