“The less manifest the work, the stronger:
as though a secret law demanded it always be hidden
in what it shows, thus showing what must remain hidden,
only showing it, in the end, by dissimulation.”
~ Maurice Blanchot
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity
of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom
and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.”
~ Magdalena Abakanowicz
“Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor.
It’s a gift to the world and every being in it. Don’t cheat us of your contribution.
Give us what you’ve got.”
~ Steven Pressfield
“The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that
wonderful state which makes art inevitable.”
~ Robert Henri
”When it is working, you completely go into another place, you’re tapping into things
that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self.
That’s what it’s all about.”
~ Keith Haring
“Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.”
~ Jean-Luc Godard
“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”
~ James McNeil Whistler
“A piece of art is never a finished work.
It answers a question which has been asked,
and asks a new question.”
~ Robert Engman
“The reason that art (writing, engaging, and all of it)
is valuable is precisely why I can’t tell you how to do it.
If there were a map, there’d be no art, because art is
the act of navigating without a map.”
~ Seth Godin
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