All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Art lies by its own artifice.
When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
The interpretation of dreams is a great art.
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
The most seductive thing about art is the personality of the artist himself.
Art is a harmony parallel with nature.
Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
One eye sees, the other feels.
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.
Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Economics is not an exact science. It's a combination of an art and elements of science. And that's almost the first and last lesson to be learned about economics: that in my judgment, we are not converging toward exactitude, but we're improving our data bases and our ways of reasoning about them.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.
Architecture is art, nothing else.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.