Quotes About Art

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.

At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day; having hues of the most intense violets, blues and greens. If only you pay attention to it you will see that certain stars are lemon-yellow, others pink or a green, blue and forget-me-not brilliance. And without my expatiating on this theme it is obvious that putting little white dots on the blue-black is not enough to paint a starry sky.

The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

A vida é a arte do encontro, embora haja tanto desencontro pela vida.

Life is the art of encounter, although there is so much mismatch in life.

To live is an art, we are all artists of our own lives.

I keep it real normal, like I don't try to act like a celebrity, or say that just because I'm on a TV show I can do other types of TV. I take it very seriously and I respect the art of acting.

Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become stageworthy.

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

We have made you [Priapus] of marble for the time being.

All aglow is the work.

Do not commit your poems to pages alone, sing them I pray you.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.