Fall in love, get heart broken, and don’t get over them, not until you’ve created art that lives on longer than the love you had.
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Quotes tagged ‘Art’
When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warne…
How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?
If your goal is to create art, the worst way you can approach it is to think about what others want to see.
It is the task of art to reveal the contradictions of being.
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
The desire to survive and the fear of death are artistic sentiments.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Every artist returns to things. The drawings that you make as a child or as an adolescent and the ideas that you have as a young beginning artist, no doubt they crop up again and again.
Content is to be dissolved so completely into form that the work of art or literature cannot be reduced in whole or in part to anything not itself.
Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.