It had to be fun to visit, too, but if you didn't like the photos you took there—well, then what was the point?
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We’re all flabbergasted, to be frank. I wonder, what are they even trying to say? ‘I am here Instagramming?’ It’s like this new first-person narrative of the museum experience. I’m fascinated.
If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart.
A picture is a poem without words.
I make no distinction between poetry and painting.
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
We saw ourselves as anthropologists from the twenty-first century inhabiting a time module set somewhere in the dark ages of the 1960s. On this space colony we were attempting to create a new paganism and a new dedication to life as art.
The goal is to never stay the same. I always want to be changing and evolving. That’s the whole point of life and the whole point of making art is to be constantly moving.
Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent—dimly, briefly—revelations unattainable by reason.
Yes, but art isn't what you do, it's how you do it.
I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can—that is their secret.
Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Art is to console those who are broken by life.
She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
I think a lot of art is trying to make someone love you.
True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision.
I’m not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don’t think you get a true picture of people without it in writing… It’s a kind of poetry, it’s an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don’t think anything is true that doesn’t have it, that doesn’t have poet…
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
The living inhabitation of the world — the grazing and nesting in it, — the spiritual power of the air, the rocks, the waters, to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, — happier if it needed no help of mine, — this was the essential love of Nature in me, this t…