Quotes About Art

If you add layer upon layer, detail over detail, the painting becomes lost in the paint.

Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.

Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself.

No knack of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

It is a bad musical, but, like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do its job perfectly well.

You write what you are compelled to.

They have come dressed as robots or space goddesses or aliens because a writer has changed their lives.

A stroke. Robert has never been kind to his body . . . It is only the carrier of that wonderful mind, after all. A case for the crown. And Robert has cared for that mind like a tiger with her young: he has given up drinking and drugs, kept a strict schedule of sleep. He is good, he is careful. And to steal that--to steal his mind--burglar Life!Like cutting a Rembrandt from its frame.

He goes to the Musée Carnavalet and admires the decor of crumbled palaces restored, room by room

Every book it's the hardest part-finding the way in, finding the voice to tell the story. H

It is a bad musical, but like a bad lay, a bad musical can still do it's job perfectly well.

A veces me pregunto cómo se las arreglan todos aquellos que no escriben, componen o pintan para liberarse de la locura, la melancolía y el miedo al pánico inherente a la condición humana».

The artists found out long ago that the way to combat a government that presents lies as if they were the truth is to tell the truth as if it were a joke. Humor became a means of encoded communication, and so long as they made jokes they could be vocal and invulnerable.

I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

Really, I think one's art goes only as far and as deep as your love goes

writing fire and watching the syllables burn

We are continually being nudged by our devices toward a set of choices. The question is whether those choices are leading us to the life we actually want. I want a life of conversation and friendship, not distraction and entertainment; but every day, many times a day, I'm nudged in the wrong direction. One key part of the art of living faithfully with technology is setting up better nudges for ourselves.

An artist's impression of what it would look like if Mr Big Nose's nose exploded.

ABOVE: An artist's impression of what it would look like if Mr Big Nose's nose exploded.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I believe in low lights and trick mirrors.

An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.