#art

"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."

"Creativity thrives where its roots are crowded."

"The canvas isn’t empty. It’s full of whatever you imagine it to be full of. My art is so conceptual that not only do I not tell, but I don’t even show. All I do is sign the canvas and try to sell it."

"Trying to live up to yourself is the most trying thing."

"Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it."

"Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind."

"Još uvijek silno vjerujem u umjetnost kao medikament!"

"Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed."

"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."

"I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness."

"President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just inspirational. It is aspirational. It pricks the walls of our compartmentalized minds, opens our hearts and makes us brave. And that's what we need most in our country today."

"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."

"Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought."

"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."

"Seni sama pentingnya dengan matematika. Seni memanusiakan manusia. Seni menciptakan rasa empati"

"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."

"We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause."

"A corollary of this has been that Christians have thought that they should only create art with a Pollyanna quality to it: paintings of birds and kittens, movies that extol family life and end happily, songs that are positive and uplifting – in short, works of art that show a world that is almost unfallen where no one experiences conflict and where sin is naughty rather than wicked."

"I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…"

"To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart"