Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
Art like life is an open secret.
Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Life, the raw material, is only lived in potentia until the artist deploys it in his work.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you...