The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.

Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

All profoundly original art looks ugly at first.

If you want to change your art, change your habits.

Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

Art is a matter strictly of experience, not of principles and what counts first and last in art is quality, all other things are secondary.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

The reality of art is disclosed only in experience, not in reflection upon experience.

When you don't like something the words come more readily.

With an 'advanced' artist, it's not now possible to make a portrait.

If only I knew now what I know in the future.

Every Time your lips touch mine the spark ignites anew, my want for more of you...

He, who beats his wife defies his goddess

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

You should constantly write because your writing is always evolving and progressing. It's really important to start writing young.

Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone.