“The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.” ArtStatesAlivePaintingArt IsMiracleSacredConstantVisualsRenewalVisual ArtExaltation Author:Joseph Plaskett
“Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.” NeedsLooksEyeSpaceSupportMysteryPaintingSacredJudgementLook UpEvaluationSacred Space Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
“All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.” PeopleCountryCertainHurtWorstPaintingJudgingPoliticianSacredRuinsChairsDriversCant Author:Man Ray
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsArtYoungBlackLevelsSawsExamplePaintingWallInstitutionsSacredInspiredTechniqueScalesLos AngelesMuseumsHeroicCompositionVansUrgencyCountyBarbershop Author:Kehinde Wiley
“[My muse] likes to inhabit tea leaves, sunlight filtered through bamboo, melancholy clouds over the Devon coastline, a weedy railroad crossing in the Southern States, bubblegum pop from the sixties, torch songs from the forties, undersea caves where B-movie octopi grapple with men in loincloths, sacred groves of pink anime dryads, Victorian fairy paintings executed by gentlemen in lunatic asylums and so on.” MenStatesSongPaintingSacredCloudsPopsLikesTeaGentlemanFairyFortyMelancholySouthernSunlightSixtyMuseCavesCrossingsLunaticTorchesRailroadsAsylumsVictorianGroveAnimeBambooCoastlineDevonLunatic AsylumsTea LeavesUndersea Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensPlayStoriesPiecesChangedPaintingSacredStorytellingTransformedWriting Poetry Author:Karla Souza
“All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.” KnowsWritingMeanArtReligiousPaintingSacredSacred Art Author:Salman Rushdie
“Every painting is a voyage into a sacred harbor.” SpiritPaintingSacredHarborsVoyagesHarbour Author:Giotto di Bondone
“Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."” AblePowerPaintingOughtCapacitySacredTouched Author:Pablo Picasso
“Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.” WayMayChildrenArtSpiritualArtistChoicesRealizingCompassionKnownRichPaintingExpressionSourceGratitudeLimitsSacredExtraordinaryPrivilegeImmortalTangibleBeing An ArtistConfluenceSacred PlacesExpressions Of Gratitude Author:Richard Schmid