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“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the...”
“Fears arise when you look back, and they arise when you look ahead. If you're prone to disaster fantasies, you may even find yourself caught in the middle, staring at your half-finished canvas and ...”
“A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
“It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.”
“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”
“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”
“I dont want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.”
“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”
“In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.”
“Bring something incomprehensible into the world!”
“Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk.”
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.”
“I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.”
“All art is but dirtying the paper delicately.”
“Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.”
“If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!”
“Maybe it was true that only beauty would save the world, or truth, or some other high-flown garbage; but fear was still more powerful than anything else. Fear destroyed everything: everything born ...”
“When we stop fearing failure, we start being artists.”
“The preparation of good food is merely another expression of art, one of the joys of civilized living”
