Phyllis Theroux Quotes

Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where the beam of light can be intensely caught, without this having been perceptible before.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.

do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

As an artist, you want to entertain people.

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing.

Art is great. At its best, it engages the intellect and challenges the spirit; it connects us across history and reminds us of our humanity.

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

To be an artist is a blessing and a privilege. Artists must never betray their true hearts. Artists must look beneath the surface and show that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions and bring sustenance to imagination. Human beings' greatest form of communication, they walk in tandem with science and play, and best describe what it is to be human.

Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. When you feel inspired you find yourself thrust into a world where ordinary objects and events are full of light, as if illuminated from within. This inner light is truth, and when you suddenly see the truth, we gain insight, clarity, and joy.

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

It was Sophie ( Sophie Arp Tauber, woman artist and later Arp's wife) who, by the example of her work and her life, both of them bathed in clarity, showed me the right way. In her world, the high and the low, the light and the dark, the eternal and the ephemeral, are balanced in prefect equilibrium.

Art is a personal act of courage, something one human does that creates change in another.

Being an artist is celebrating life.

What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.

The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms; And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.

The essential thing is to spring forth, to express the bolt of lightning one senses upon contact with a thing. The function of the artist is not to translate an observation but to express the shock of the object on his nature; the shock, with the original reaction.

I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.