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Short Quotes
The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.Short Enemy
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undoneShort
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.Short
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight.Short
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.Short Feeling
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.Short Soul
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.Short Soul
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.Short Universe
A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.Short Secret
You don't take a photograph, you make it.Short
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.Short
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.Short Writing
The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?Short World
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.Short
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Life Quotes
Art is to console those who are broken by life.Life Short
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.Life Humor Writer Writing
It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.Life Short Work
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Life Soul
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.Life
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.Life
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.Life Music Poetry
We need to create a society where our values are more spread out to all aspects of life. Music, art, love, care, all these things are as important as economics.Life Love Music Philosophy
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want.Life Nature
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.Life Short
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.Life Short Humans
In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.Life Short
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Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.Humor Emotions
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.Inspirational Knowledge
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.Success
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Philosophy Science Emotions Experience
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.Science Wisdom
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.Beauty Love
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Imagination Science Emotions
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.Beauty God Life Music
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.Philosophy
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.Nature Light
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sunImagination Intelligence
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.Love Short
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.Music Writing
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.Nature Short
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.Love Time Work Passion
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.Hope
i am a museum full of art but you had your eyes shutLove Poetry
Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.Mind Thinking
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.Silence
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!Freedom History
Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.Love
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?Nature Poetry
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.Memory
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.Experience
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.Dreams
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.Book
The human body is the best work of art.Beauty
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.Freedom Emotions
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.Feeling
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.Truth Lie
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.Humor
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.Humor
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.Humor
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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.Work Passion
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.Perception
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.Loneliness
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.Nature
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.Money
Building technology means you don't have to choose between practicing science, commerce, and art.Science
“Artists” calling for censorship don't know what art is. “Scientists” citing consensus don't know what science is. “Teachers” indoctrinating students don't know what teaching is. “Journalists” parroting propaganda don't know what reporting is.Science
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.Humor
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.Music
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.Writing
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.Inspirational
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.Enemy Writing
If you want to paint, first you need an empty canvas. If you want to know music, you need to know silenceMusic Silence
As an art form, Twitter is like poetry - every word countsPoetry Short
The people working on finance, games, art, social networking, and the metaverse, but who still don't get crypto, are in for a surprise.
If you create it for yourself, it's art. If you create it for others, it's business.
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth livesMusic Poetry Earth
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.Humor
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.Heart Life
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival. 
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. 
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. 
Yoga is the art of proper action 
You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search. 
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. 
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words. 
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. 
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone 
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. 
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. 
Painting is the silence of thought and the music of sight. 
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. 
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. 
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. 
You don't take a photograph, you make it. 
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. 
Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing 
Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous. 
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. 
I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all. 
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. 
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. 
We need to create a society where our values are more spread out to all aspects of life. Music, art, love, care, all these things are as important as economics. 
I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want. 
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun
When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time.
Everything you can imagine is real.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
Your mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.
Imagination governs the world.
When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?
What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that's gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
I dream my painting and I paint my dream.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
The human body is the best work of art.
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!
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.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Building technology means you don't have to choose between practicing science, commerce, and art.
“Artists” calling for censorship don't know what art is. “Scientists” citing consensus don't know what science is. “Teachers” indoctrinating students don't know what teaching is. “Journalists” parroting propaganda don't know what reporting is.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it.
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
If you want to paint, first you need an empty canvas. If you want to know music, you need to know silence
The people working on finance, games, art, social networking, and the metaverse, but who still don't get crypto, are in for a surprise.
If you create it for yourself, it's art. If you create it for others, it's business.
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.
All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.