#art

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it.""Isn't it?"

"No man owns me. All man can do is practice the timeless, criminal art of threatening to separate my soul from her physical host."

"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."

"My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the product of both; and my legacy is of the story of my soul, that my life left behind"

"You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day."

"I believe in the city as a natural human environment, but we must humanize it. It's art that will re-define public space in the 21st Century. We can make our cities diverse, inspirational places by putting art, dance and performance in all its forms into the matrix of street life."

"Your personal truth is your gift to the world."

"An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours."

"A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition."

"I want to meet a guy named Art. I'd take him to a museum, hang him on the wall, criticize him, and leave."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

"A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."

"An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have."

"The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything."

"Love is an art. Mine could fill a museum the size of your heart."

"A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."

"I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality."

"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."

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