“All modern painting is at once a language and a criticism of that language. A painting is a system of relations, values, and signs; each painting is an investigation and a critique of itself. Modern art is a critique of meaning and an attempt to show the reverse side of signs”
Source: Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature
“The Mughals elevated art and architecture to new heights, creating a visual legacy that continues to inspire.”
“The great artist represents in all but funds—that is, by his own word—the confessional aristocracy of an erudite if autodidactic intelligence, one that is forever imparted from the vantage of an outsider.”
Source: The Tedium Lies
“En estas horas empezaba a sospechar de qué rincones él había traslado su música al violín. Y no me parecía ya tan malo aquel hombre que sabía coger sus propios sollozos y comprimirlos en una belleza tan espesa como el oro antiguo…”
Source: Nada
“My destiny is to remind you to look up from the castles you're building in the sand long enough to notice the cathedrals that God's building all around you - without you, without your sweat, without your tears, without your consent. While you dream your dreams, he's busy building your destiny. And there is as much beauty in your destiny as there was in your dream. Let go and believe that whatever its is, it will be beautiful.”
Source: Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed
“Whispers ignite flames,
silent passion claims hearts,
love's clandestine art.
(Haiku)”
“If for some reason creative channels are closed or the ability to find some outlet for the creative drive is blocked, then the course of the drive is deflected and the energy will be turns toward destructive ends: mental illness, alcoholism, drugs, sex, suicide.”
Source: Just This Side of Madness: Creativity and the Drive to Create
“For the artist the drive to create is synonymous with the drive to survive and death is its antithesis. But survival without creative recourse in a world of madness or incapacity is synonymous with death.”
Source: Just This Side of Madness: Creativity and the Drive to Create
“There is no art without an artist”
Source: The Recluse of Santa Fe
“Art is a part of the artist’s soul willed into independent existence. That’s why we can take things as different as a drawing, or a dance, or a poem, or a melody and call them all art.”
Source: The Recluse of Santa Fe