art

ART happens every time we live in the spirit of the moment's greatness.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself

you write your best lyrics when you most vulnerable

Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence.

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

In each painting, I think, it__ as if __od were giving up on finishing the world.

We write to go on living, after we have died.

I romanticize life the way artists see scenery or a dreamer gazes up at the stars.

Art contained an undefined mystery that spoke to her soul.

No one has madethe art by which one makes the worksof art. Each one who speaks speaksas a convocation. We live as councilsof ghosts. It is not "human genius"that makes us human, but an old love,an old intelligence of the heartwe gather to us from the world,from the creatures, from the angelsof inspiration, from the dead--an intelligence merely nonexistentto those who do not have it, but --to those who have it more dear than life.

She was in awe of all his work. 'How do you do it?" she asked.He smiled and said, 'By loving you.

Say it new or say it straight.

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.

Writing, photography...art. It's all about what's in focus.

Every human is unique every spirit is engaging.

Artists are often repulsed by the anti-human values and commercialized culture of their society, but they are also aware that they have a unique status within it that allows them to express their creative individuality - as long as it sells. They fear that socialism would strip them of that status and reduce them to the level of mere workers, because they are unable to imagine a world that values and encourages the artistic expression of all of its members.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

That doesn't mean that I would destroy those works, or that I'm not proud of having come out the other side. Our past art makes our present art as much as our past life makes us who we are now. In the end, if the art stands up, that's what matters.