Quotes on “art”

It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

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.