#art

"Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."

"The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there."

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse."

"Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day."

"Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'"

"A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself."

"I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing."

"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."

"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."

"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."

"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."

"There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art."

"The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition."

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

"Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?"

"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."

"Artists exist to show us the world. So do windows."

"Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically."

"The art of love is largely the art of persistence."