All order is ephemeral … chaos eats into order … yet it has its own order … if order could be chaos, chaos can be structured as non-chaos.
~Eva Hesse


The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
~David Bowie

All good ideas arrive by chance.
~Max Ernst

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
~Frida Kahlo

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
~H. R. Giger

All order is ephemeral … chaos eats into order … yet it has its own order … if order could be chaos, chaos can be structured as non-chaos.
~Eva Hesse


The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.
~David Bowie

All good ideas arrive by chance.
~Max Ernst

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
~Frida Kahlo

No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
~H. R. Giger

Flesh and meat are life! If I paint red meat as I paint bodies it is just because I find it very beautiful.
~Francis Bacon Quotes


Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
~Constantin Brancusi

Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
~Georges Braque

I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
~Henri Matisse

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
~Michelangelo

At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
~Eric Idle

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist
~Oscar Wilde

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
~Eugene Delacroix

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.
~John Anthony Ciardi

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
~Leonardo da Vinci

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
~NIETZSCHE

Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges.
~Sharon Welch

Life is "trying things to see if they work."
~Ray Bradbury

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~Theodor Adorno

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
~Francis Bacon

To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
~Alexander Calder

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
~Friedrich Schiller

"Art is NOT about who can make the prettiest picture."

Bad artists always admire each other's work.
~Oscar Wilde


Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
~Samuel Butler

Look, it's my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it's your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.
~Mark Rothko

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

I remember an article, I can't recall who by, it was after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which said that now the Wall was down, there could be no more class war. Only someone with money could ever say such a thing. – Claude Chabrol



I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money. – Orson Welles



The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. – Jean Cocteau



Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. – Luis Bunuel




I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret – Fritz Lang


Death does determine life. – Pier Paolo Pasolini





Most of my films are made for money. It’s the American way.

I once told Godard that he had something I wanted - freedom. He said: 'You have something I want - money'.

If you shake a movie, ten minutes will fall out.

[on working with 'Bette Midler in Jinxed!] I'd let my wife, children and animals starve before I'd subject myself to something like that again. – Don Siegel

On the whole, money does artists much more good than harm. The idea that one benefits from cold water, crusts and debt collectors is now almost extinct, like belief in the reformatory power of flogging.

The idea that money, patronage and trade automatically corrupts the wells of imagination is a pious fiction, believed by some utopian lefties and a few people of genius such as (William) Blake but flatly contradicted by history itself.

~Robert Hughes

. . . I knew that a day I took away from the work did not make me too happy. I just feel that I’m in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I’m in the process of working. I always felt right when I was right here. And even if I didn’t want to compose, so I painted or stacked the pieces or something. In my studio I’m as happy as a cow in her stall. That’s the only place where everything is all right.
~ Louise Nevelson

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed; contemplating it, everyone can create a story at the will of his imagination and.. with a single glance.. have his soul invaded by the most profound recollections; no effort of memory, everything is summed up in one instant. A complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.
~Paul Gauguin

He (Vincent) has painted a few portraits which have turned out well, but he always does them for no payment. It is a pity that he does not want to earn something, for if he did want to he could make something here, but you can't change a person..
~Theo van Gogh

"I disapprove of what you say,but i will defend to the death your right to say it"...Voltaire. " Neil Armstrong ."That`s one small step for man.Onegiant leap for mankind."

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

Francois Truffaut



As a director, my critical eye is that Blu-ray is where my money is.

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.

Fast cars are my only vice.

My business side isn't shy.

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free.

Believe it or not, I have a really soft heart and I can be sappy.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct.

We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them.

Michael Bay

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.
Gordon Parks

Your(Adolf Hitler) deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we (the German people) ever thank you?
Leni Riefenstahl

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Stanley Kubrick

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
Mickey Spillane

One seldom recognizes the devil when he has his hand on your shoulder.
Albert Speer

You cannot run faster than a bullet.
Idi Amin Dada

A great truth is like a mountain that one walks around, and the changes of its contour as one moves
his position only emphasize and revivify its majesty.
Andrew Wyeth

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
M. C. Escher

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Klaus Kinski

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
George S. Patton

I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead--peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously
Paul Robeson

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.
Salvador Dali


I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?

If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
~Woody Allen


The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
~Alfred Adler

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions that when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
~Anthony Burgess

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
~Isaac Asimov

Draw what you see; paint what you feel.
~Francis Boag

How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
~Claude Debussy

First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
~Denis Diderot

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
~Ernest Hemingway
(Faulkner"s As I Lay Dying is one of the most horribly boring books ever written!)

A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.
~Howard Hodgkin

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.
~Denis Diderot

The religions we call false were once true.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
~Richard Dawkins

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
~Emil Nolde

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
~Carl Sagan

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
~John F. Kennedy

Art is the residue of thought – it does not happen by accident or without effort.
~Todd Plough

The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history hs so much been used by so many to say so little.

~Bansky

"The Edge...There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others -- the living -- are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to do when it came time to choose between Now and Later. " - Hunter S. Thompson


"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil. Keep that in mind. Buy the ticket. Take the ride." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Wait! We can't stop here, this is bat country!" - Hunter S. Thompson

I love Hunter! Great stuff Joseph

Yea, that guy was ALWAYS entertaining!

I like boring things - Andy Warhol