#art

"Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please."

"The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine"

"The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist"

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

"The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying."

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

"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."

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

"L'étude du beau est un duel où l'artiste crie de frayeur avant d'être vaincu."

"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."

"Using your talent, hobby or profession in a way that makes you contribute with something good to this world is truly the way to go."

"Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs."

"I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with."

"The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well."

"How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it."

"Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart."

"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."

"How’s my mom? My mother’s well, like a painting—a Motherwell."

"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."