Cicatrixx’s most recent Quotables

We like lists because we don't want to die.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

I didn't say it was going to be easy. I just said it was going to be worth it.

Design is where science and art break even.

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

I like to slosh on paint to kill the white of the canvas with a bit of turpentine. Then I start with a blur which looks something like the subject and I gradually refine it.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising'.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.