Artistic Vision Quotes

“As far as I know, every person has a dream. Every person is a born artist.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Deep inside, we are all artists who can't find the crayons that were given to us in playschool.”
― Neeraj Agnihotri, Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination

“Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.”
― Don DeLillo

“We are the young and reckless hearts,
destined to fly, and fall, and fly again.
The world doesn’t treat the wild souls well,
because maybe it doesn’t quite understand.
But in the end it remembers the super novas
that burned so bright we blinded them all.”
― Sarah Loven, Les Belles Lettres

“Freedom is the soul of art.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Every emotion, every phrase or sentence, every bit of human action, can be a form of art. Art is not necessarily bound to the stereotypical notions of the human society. Art can come in the form of a little sentence, art can come in the form of a simple brush-stroke, art can come in the form of an everyday snapshot, art can come in the form of a plain strumming on the fret of an old guitar. Art doesn't require definition, and more importantly, art cannot be bound by the descriptions of words, yet words themselves can form the most rejuvenating and liberating form of art.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Some people can see art in everything.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Poets deal in mysterious connections that tie people together, those difficult to catalog ethereal notions of love, beauty, joy, and broken hearts, or what and Richelle E. Goodrich, an American author and poet referred to as ‘the etched sorrows of despairing souls.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Art is the newly sprung river that keeps flowing at its own pace, based on its own unconditional knacks, passion, and its nature. Nature itself is art, and as such, art can be found in everything that belongs to nature. And in the world we live, there is nothing that doesn't belong to nature, for everything is nature, hence, everything is art. Even science is art, when it flows pure and free - literature is art, when it flows pure and free - mathematics is art, when it flows pure and free. Any act of the mind that flows pure and free, is art, for freedom is the soul of art.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“Art evokes the suburb of our experiences, emotions, and longings; it transcendence beyond personal preference. Art is vulnerability. Art is intimacy. Art is mystery. Art is indefinite. Art evokes the truth.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Looking at a painting of an artist who has already died, is kind of mystical magic that touches the soul. It is like looking at a star at night, that died centuries ago, even though you're still in their light.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“A true artist is never satisfied with settling, so you will never see them stay the same for very long. They are like chameleons... ever-changing, ever-scheming, ever-chasing that glimpse of divine inspiration that creates them anew.”
― Sarah Loven, Les Belles Lettres

“I know a lot of artists. The greatest loves of all their lives are their creations. Unfortunately most of us don’t have that kind of talent, so we have to make do with falling in love with real people.”
― Jonathan Carroll, Kissing the Beehive

“The infinite branches of art are important ingredients of the human race, and the most faithful refuge of creativity where magic is released. Showing us another way of seeing the world, that everything is possible. It shows us alternative ways with our way of living. It is possible to live a life from art and music.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Art is a basic human right.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“Despite all the lovely and undoubtedly accurate statements pertaining to what art is, perhaps art is merely a person creating a new ethical world in which they can reside. Perhaps when the sculptor, painter, writer, musician, and poet arrive at the point where after many trials and glorious errors they create art, they can put down their chisel, paintbrushes, pen, musical instruments, and verse making. Perhaps when the artist travels beyond the realm of the ordinary, they no longer feel a need to pay homage to a world where other people’s values and principles rule. Creating a new realm for their personal occupancy, they can now destroy all their crutches, burn, crush, and obliterate all their prior creations for what they now perceive as an abomination.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Where reasoning fails to do justice to the expression of the soul, there begins the uncharted territory of art.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Lives to Serve Before I Sleep

“I love you from art to madness and back.”
― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

“A writer must use conventional standards to judge their own work, even if they desire to extend or expand upon prevailing notion of what constitutes a compelling piece of writing. A firm understanding of prevailing standards is the mark of good taste. Struggling aesthetes can certainly learn from studying the philosophy of aesthetics, concerning themselves with notions such as what is beautiful and what is ugly. Literature is more than an appreciation for what is beautiful; it also encompasses social-political themes, probing issues of ethics and morality, and expanding upon the vices and virtues of living.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Behind every beautiful thing built by man there is a beautiful idea and behind every beautiful idea there is a beautiful inspiration, and behind every beautiful inspiration there is a magical glance of the artistic mind to the world!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The best thing in the world is art. From an artist's heart, it could never be apart.

Doing it an artist will be always gay,
For being happy and relaxed, art is the best way.”
― Aakanksha Das

“In una notte di orrore, gli uomini hanno inventato l'arte.”
― José Carlos Somoza, The Art of Murder

“I taught an introductory creative writing class at Princeton last year and, in addition to the classic ‘show don’t tell’, I often told my students that their fiction needed to have ’emotional truth’ […]: a quality different from honesty and more resilient than fact, a quality that existed not in the kind of fiction that explains but in the kind of fiction that shows. All the novels I love, the ones I remember, the ones I re-read, have this empathetic human quality. And because I write the kind of fiction I like to read, when I started Half of a Yellow Sun […], I hoped that emotional truth would be its major recognizable trait. […]

Successful fiction does not need to be validated by ‘real life’; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is ‘real’. Yet, […] to write realistic fiction about war, especially one central to the history of one’s own country, is to be constantly aware of a responsibility to something larger than art. While writing Half of a Yellow Sun, I enjoyed playing with minor things [such as inventing a train station in a town that has none]. Yet I did not play with the central events of that time. I could not let a character be changed by anything that had not actually happened. If fiction is indeed the soul of history, then I was equally committed to the fiction and the history, equally keen to be true to the spirit of the time as well as to artistic vision of it.

The writing itself was a bruising experience. […] But there were also moments of extravagant joy when I recognized, in a character or moment or scene, that quality of emotional truth.”

In the Shadow of Biafra (essay included in the 2007 Harper Perennial edition ofHalf of a Yellow Sun).”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“Though it is essential to deliver a product one should never undermine the value of free will, of transforming knowledge into wisdom & exploring newer Artistic Paradigms!”
― Ujjwal Arora, Artistic Paradigm: Changing Limited Perception of Art, Design & Architecture

“Romance is important in the daily life. Not just love and relationships, those are easy. But the act of doing something, working on your art, listening to the world around you. The old world lives, so remember to love it, the world, the actions”
― W.M Angel

“Show me how you portray nature, and I shall tell you who you are.”
― Oskar Schlemmer, The Letters and Diaries of Oskar Schlemmer

“That first evening home from the honeymoon, she'd hung a braided wreath of golden straw to catch the light of the setting sun and set a glamour over the table in the breakfast room--- to make it special, to bring Pierce's full attention from a stack of contracts to their first meal at home as husband and wife. The wine had seemed lusher to her, the vinaigrette on the salad brighter, the flash and shine of the silver and the creamy porcelain china enchanting.”
― Rowenna Miller, The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill

“We said that we had to please ourselves first, that was the point of what being an artist was all about. If you didn't keep your integrity in the face of hard commercial decisions, you were lost. Your soul was dead.”
― Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac

“Não querem conhecer o meu trabalho. Querem conhecer quem eu não sou, aquilo que eu não faço.”
― Wagner Schwartz, A nudez da cópia imperfeita

“Whatever passes our path is ours to use, to fold into a story decades later, to find some wisdom that surpasses time.”
― Laurie E. Smith