#quotes about art

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

my mum bought me my first neil gaiman book, maggots!!

So, I don't know if you'd call it a book like a story, rather, it's a series of essays by Neil that were illustrated by Chris Riddell. My mum listened to the story of how I was kidnapped adopted by the Good Omens fandom. She was very confused, but since I'm an author and artist, she bought me the book, Art Matters.

And I've been seeing so much beautiful fanart and edits and fanfiction from this fandom, I swear to God or Someone, and it's all reminding me what a wonderful thing fandom is. And art is.

I read the book, and it was amazing, and here's a few quotes from it that I think the ridiculously talented people who created the book and the show as well as every fan who has made this creation grow should hear.

"And remember that whatever discipline you are in, whether you are a musician or a photographer, a fine artist or a cartoonist, a writer, a dancer, a designer, whatever you do, you have one thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art. And for me, and for so many of the people I have known, that's been a lifesaver. The ultimate lifesaver."

"...while you're at it, make your art. Do that stuff that only you can do. ...the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."

"And where would be the fun is doing something you knew was going to work?"

Well, you heard him, maggots. Go on creating. You are all so, so important. I came to tumblr because I was lonely and I wanted a friend.

I found a family, instead. In this very strange fandom that kidnapped adopted me. I love you all, and I'm glad to cry with you. I haven't even got to season 2 yet.

Side note...

Welcome, @neil-gaiman, join the maggots in watching me sob over Aziraphale and Crowley. It really is very quiet, gentle and romantic out here.

[inabigworld]

all of your feelings. all of your pain. all of your love. all of your rage. all of your hatred. everything that feels good, everything that doesn’t feel good at all. all of your insides. get it out. spill your guts, pour your heart out, and let it bleed out of your wounds. word vomit all over that blank canvas, baby. make it your own.

[victusinveritas]

"I wish to paint in such a manner as if I were photographing dreams".

Artworks by: Zdzisław Beksiński.

[littyngeeky]

rainer maria rilke - letters to a young poet

[dreamy-conceit]

Art is how we decorate space; music is how we decorate time.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

[littlelonelymuse]

Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir, 1989)

[haileyjennelle]

“It’s better to turn the pain into art than to keep it all locked in a box inside your heart.”

-hj

[roarysblog]

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

[coffeenotesx]

"And in the end, There was only creation~" -August Rain

[zoeandsubaloveart]

[lucidloving]

@roach-works // Melissa Broder, "Problem Area" // Mary Oliver, "The Return" // @annavonsyfert // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer // Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance // David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories // Tennessee Williams, Notebooks

[ink-the-artist]

"Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak."

[humming-fly]

I love how Gerald was trying to keep Shadow from spoiling anything about the future meanwhile literally everything Shadow says and does around Maria is the biggest death flag ever

[demaparbat-hp]

He truly did.

[milesofstars]

dont worry about it jason...

[dreamy-conceit]

... we decided to put Jeff Koons in the new programme: not because his work is beautiful or means anything much, but because it is such an extreme and self-satisfied manifestation of the sanctimony that attaches to big bucks.

Koons really does think he's Michelangelo and is not shy to say so. The significant thing is that there are collectors, especially in America, who believe it. He has the slimy assurance, the gross patter about transcendence through art, of a blow-dried Baptist selling swamp acres in Florida. And the result is that you can't imagine America's singularly depraved culture without him.

— Robert Hughes, art critic, on Jeff Koons (The Guardian, 30 June 2004).