Quotes About Art

Writing is both a sacrificing and a saving of soul.

When I stop the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds.

Writer's block is a disease for which there is no cure, only respite.

Some writers have beautiful poetry inside that explodes from the pen into prose. Others hold their inner prose until it implodes to poetry.

The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.

The best writers always make poetry, whether it comes out prose or verse.

Ink and paper are sometimes passionate lovers, oftentimes brother and sister, and occasionally mortal enemies.

Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains — God composes, why shouldn't we?

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I may be writing in my dreams.

A harsh critique is a pen stab through the heart — and the resultant inkbleed.

Calligraphy, a spiritual art that has been forgotten in favor of an emotionless keyboard.

One ought to write only when one leaves a piece of one's flesh in the inkpot each time one dips one's pen.

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently.

Old-style cursive handwriting is so elegant — a beautiful garden of words with flowering letters.

The word love and the word Libra are practically synonymous. Libra invented romance, and refined it to an art with even more finesse than Leo, Scorpio and Taurus, which is saying a lot... He'll use every trick with casual ease and seldom fail to get the girl. However, once he gets her, he isn't always sure what to do with her... He often gets friendship and love hopelessly confused.

The art of scorn has fallen sadly into disrepute in these later days. Scorn fares hardly in an age of doubt and democracy. I can rarely feel it myself; but as it came rolling out of the old Cap'n that morning, I'll admit there was something grand about it.

Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another.

Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

I love crayons — especially new crayons with no broken tips. I love how they smell — and how smooth they feel between my fingers. I love imagining what marvelous pictures the crayons will create. But what I love most of all are the colors — so many colors.

My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons.

Scorpio has perfected the art of being dark and mysterious while being cute and goofy.

The opposite of education is not ignorance but indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.