Quotes About Art

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

I love painters because I don't paint, so I get to enjoy art; I like collecting paintings.

I love the fact that I can go to a museum now that tells me I'm in the postmodern age.

Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

Some people like destroying for the hell of it; they love destroying beauty; they try to feel those people and then crack the egg.

Love was where I learned to go beyond myself, through the arts, through relationships, through sexuality.

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives.

These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.

The depth of my feelings is proportional to the depth of the color.

Love is spelt C-O-L-O-R.AndColor is spelt L-O-V-E.

When I draw I don't capture your likeness. I capture your soul.

When you're at a loss for words. Draw a picture.

Colors don't come in shapes.They come in depth.

She's into authentic hearts and mind shattering conversations. Good music and quirky art. Weirdness and eccentric people. Love, kindness and genuine souls. She's into all this and so much more.

Flowers don't tell, they show. That's the way good books should be too."--Stephanie Skeem. Author of Flotsam

Feelings and emotionran through my veinslike a hurricane.And that's when everythingbegan to look like poetry.—You look like poetry

...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...

If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.

The Art of the Deal, by Donald Trump. "Have you read it?" I ask Kimball.

Artists—or, in the local parlance, creatives—should no longer push any envelope, go to the dark side, explore taboos, make inappropriate jokes or offer contrarian opinions. We could, but not if we wanted to feed our families.

Everyone has to be the same, and have the same reactions to any given work of art, or movement or idea, and if you refuse to join the chorus of approval you will be tagged a racist or a misogynist. This is what happens to a culture when it no longer cares about art.