“Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.” ArtRealityTruthLyingGoalChangeCreatingStructureSellingSymbolsManipulationMuseumsContemplatingTicketsGorgeousGallerySkullsEscapingSorceress Book:T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingHumansMeanArtMadeHuman BeingsPaperCreatingLike MeSavingMade ItImmortalSave The WorldGreat WritersCreating ArtGood Human Being Author:Charles Bukowski
“In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.” WorldWayArtMatterRealityFormLyingFictionSubjectsHorrorEssentialsCreatingPerfectionBetrayalWorks Of ArtRebelNew WorldCelebrationInfidelityAffirmationUglinessGreat WorkDefianceSubject MatterGrimRetellingTake ControlTransienceTehranInsubordination Author:Azar Nafisi
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.” KnowsDoeArtMatterInspirationArtistVoiceCommunityMemoriesKnowingMastersFindingsCreatingChaosOneselfInventionVoidDiscourseVocationAwakenedAdoptingPurifying Author:Lewis Hyde
“Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that’s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we’re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.” BelieveWellsArtTogetherBeautifulUsedArtistProcessCrazyInspireCreatingUglyWorks Of ArtSaneRatsDaddyCommercialism Book:Skinny Legs and All Source: Skinny Legs and All
“In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one's work caged in art's great zoos - the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?” ArtGoalTalkingModernPeriodsMetsCreatingLowsUltimateZoosUltimate GoalCagedCreating ArtLouvre Author:Patti Smith
“That's one thing that's always, like, been a difference between, like, the performing arts, and being a painter, you know. A painter does a painting, and he paints it, and that's it, you know. He has the joy of creating it, it hangs on a wall, and somebody buys it, and maybe somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere until he dies. But he never, you know, nobody ever, nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!' You know? He painted it and that was it.” KnowsMenDoeArtSaidJoyNightDiesDifferencesOne ThingPaintingWallCreatingPaintPainterPerformingVansPerforming ArtsStarry Night Author:Joni Mitchell
“Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?” MenWorldMeanArtCultureJesusHeavenStarsChristShareWillingEternalCreatingGloryBirdJesus ChristCloudsFlyingAround The WorldRelatedExtrasWorks Of ArtFollowersMagnificentCoincidenceZoomBeyond The Stars Author:Erich von Däniken
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.” LooksArtFeelingsCreatingRecognitionWorks Of ArtFamiliarity Author:William Gaddis
“When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?” MenMindArtIdeasSelfHandsStarsBrainTalkingDyingGreatnessPlanetsExpressionCreatingCapableMen And WomenTasksIndependentWeatherConfusedTragicWorks Of ArtRoutineMediocritySelf ExpressionAlleysBowlingIndependent ThoughtComprehendingWallowingOne Life To LiveBowling Alleys Author:Neil Gaiman