Art Quotes
My opinion is that the best thing would be to work on till art lovers feel drawn toward it of their own accord, instead of having to praise or to explain it.
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Writing about something specific, in my mind, was overwhelming, so I wrote about art because I love art and I know I can say a couple of funny things about art.
Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone, and for ever!
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) isthe art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee Calls back the lovely April of her prime...
There were times in the past that I got angry at some members of the press whose writings greatly disrupted my serious pursuit of art and my behavior as an artist.
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art.
That's the most important thing in art: to be aware, pay attention, be inspired - but it should come ultimately from you.
Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.
Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer.
Admittedly, art is somewhat like spit. It does not repulse or even worry is while it is still inside of us, but once it exits our body, it becomes disgusting.
Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.