Quotes About Art

Art doesn't give rise to anything in us that isn't already there. It simply stirs our curious consciousness and sparks a fire that illuminates who we have always wanted to be.

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

When you do things with the power of passion and power of love, you create destructive beauty.

An art is a poetry but only a few can read it.

Express your feelings, no matter what. Make your every word beautiful, bright, and lovely. Make your every thought creative, caring, and lively.

A flower is symbol of beauty for eyes, but music is the expression of beauty for ears.

The object of art is to enhance the beauty, imaginations and joy of life.

Art is an expression of love, which you can see on the canvas.

Art is a passion with great vision and cultural expression.

Art is an imagination, projection, and reflection of the mind in a particular form that society can internalize and enjoy.

Art is a creative re-creation of an imaginative or real observation.

Poetry is an act of love.

There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.

Without poetry, love has no exuberance.

Classical music is the best, and cheapest, mind-altering drug in the world.

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth" ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Paint me by numbers and colour me in watercolour half tones.

I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.

Her words dance on the page.

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.