The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.
What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things that happen in the world, shaping himself completely in their image. Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.
Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?
No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Art is what you can get away with.
Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.
Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change – it can not only move us, it makes us move.
Imagination governs the world.
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
The urge to destroy is also a creative urge.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.
He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.