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Art Quotes
"They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do."
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"The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which also feature a character named Max who escapes from a quiet despicable school. Most of the similarities end there. Max and the other kids in Maximum Ride are not the same Max and kids featured in those two books. nor do Frannie and Kit play any part in Maximum Ride. I hope you enjoy the ride anyways."
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"You want to anchor the scene with physical details, but by and large it's better to use sensual details rather than overtly sexual ones."
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"It was amazing how many colors there were, all running into the gutter in a stream: a dozen shades of blue, twenty different reds, and all that black soot, like a nightmare given form, the insides of a heart, destroyed so easily, done away with before anyone could stop the damage, or salvage what was lost, or even try to save him."
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"When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies."
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"But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a."
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"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art."
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"Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts."
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"The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed."
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"An author knows his landscape best; he can stand around, smell the wind, get a feel for his place."
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"Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men."
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"Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art."
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"When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting."
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"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."
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"Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space."
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"Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded."
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"The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead."
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"Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books."
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"The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art."
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"Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go."
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"There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair."
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"This new art made a deep impression on me, and I began to study it ardently."
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"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
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"I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."
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"But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything."
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"I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses."
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"I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me."
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"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."
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"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born."
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"I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass."
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"Love the art in yourself and not yourself in the art."
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