Quotes About Art

Music!—who loves it not? who has not felt his soul soothed and softened by its sweet influence?

F.B., "Notes of Music," 1848

Music is what feelings sound like.

Music is the color of sound.

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

I'm one of those people, who when I draw birds I just draw flying mustaches.

Sewing mends the soul.

Stitch your stress away.

Quilters never grow old, they just go to pieces.

Sewing is cheaper than a psychiatrist.

PHOTOGRAPH, n. A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!

Photography is a tough life: you can be taken, framed, exposed, shot, captured, and hung all in the same day.

A true scrapbook addict is one who stages photographs to match paper she likes.

Scrapbooking is cheaper than a therapist.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Nothing is to be called a fault in poetry, says Aristotle, but what is against the art: therefore a man may be an admirable poet, without being an exact chronologer.

The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...

A poet is too impatient for prose. He needs an expressway to his emotions.

When you unprose language, does it become poetry?

I think poetry is the greatest of the arts. It combines music and painting and story-telling and prophecy and the dance. It is religious in tone, scientific in attitude. A true poem contains the seed of wonder...

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water-drinkers.

Poetry is emotion put into measure.