#art

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

"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."

"Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle creativity."

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing."

"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her."

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still."

"Our humor turns our anger into a fine art."

"There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself."

"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."

"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it."

"I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don't think that means that art has to be watered down to the lowest common denominator, though. I don't think you have to go to college to be able appreciate great art, but I like art that doesn't take itself too seriously."

"True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’."

"When the creative impulse sweeps over you, grab it. You grab it and honor it and use it, because momentum is a rare gift."

"The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living…"

"Art is longing. You never arrive, but you keep going in the hope that you will."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."

"No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."