Truman Capote Quotes

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

But surrealism is present in most of my pictures.

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.

Art is significant deformity.

The producers want us to sell, sell, sell. That's my little joke. That's what we do by day; by night, we're artists.

When you are talking about someone's art, it is usually so personal.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

It's almost required with major artists that there's some duality. And I've got duality everywhere.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.