That's creativity in a nutshell. A messy tug-of-war with imagination to erase that feeling that nothing really matters anyway.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

I rather think poetry has given me up which is a great sorrow to me But not an enormous crushing sorrow It s a bit like going bald

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda.

Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

The Moms revealed that if you're not crazy then speaking to someone who isn't there is termed apostrophe and is valid art.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he who express himself by words or drawing then I can consider myself as one.

As the saturating colors of sun-life fade from sight, the ominous moon reaches out its long arm and applies the dark dyes of night.

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.That would be you.

All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.

¿Acaso un artista puede amar tanto su trabajo que, si piensa que su obra no tiene vida, tampoco él quiere tenerla ya?