Quotes About Art

Poetry is an eloquent painting of emotions, a prosaic sense of reality.

Poetry is very beautiful porn.

Theater and cinema are worn-out moles of acting talent that goes under the skin of time.

Although some will confuse the proud demonstration of spirit with what they consider an inferior rhythmic being, we note with great pride that Afrikans are the only people on Earth who can take something as mundane and monotonous as walking and elevate it into an art form. We are the only ones whose stroll is an overt yet esoteric expression of defiance against European aggression and oppression while at the same time gloriously beautiful. That

A musician is similar to someone who wrote a letter to the loved one. Then decided to read it out loud instead of sending it.

Newborns, you are all welcome in our little creative world.

Purpose is simply the art of knowing what you are supposed to do. Action over words. Focusing on concrete objects.

Some individuals decided to bring heaven to Earth by inventing the portraits of their god.

Success is simply the art of reaching the promised land of your mindset.

We must first admire the artist, the one who has completed all that nature has left aside, before being carried away by the beauty of art.

You only know you're in love when you've been possessed by the ghost of poetry.

don't want to make photographs. The way you described it with Capa's work is exactly right: I want to make windows.

Medicine, law, banking--these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for! - Mr. Keating, Dead Poet's Society.

Medicine, law, banking - these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!

In school Set was taught that art was resistance. . . . Water follows the line of least resistance. . . . It has shaped some of the most impressive forms on the face of the earth.

we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe – harmless, in fact – with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise.

we will arrange for 'religion' to become a small subdepartment of ordinary life; it will be quite safe - harmless, in fact - with church life carefully separated off from everything else in the world, whether politics, art, sex, economics, or whatever.

when people cease to be surrounded by beauty, they cease to hope.

Art is love creating new worlds; justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

The beauty of creation, to which art responds and which it tries to express, imitate, and highlight, is not simply the beauty it possesses in itself but the beauty it possesses in view of what is promised to

The church doesn't have a monopoly on kitsch or sentimentalism, but if you want to find it, the church may well be the easiest place to start.)

I think of the Jewish novelist Chaim Potok, whose artistic hero Asher Lev searches for imagery to express the pain of modern Judaism. The only thing he can find that will do—to the predictable horror of his community—is the crucifixion scene, which he paints in fresh and shocking ways. I think of the way in which the first Harry Potter novel ends with the disclosure that Harry had been rescued, as a young child, by the loving self-sacrifice of his mother. We could go on.

When art comes to terms with both the wounds of the world and the promise of resurrection and learns how to express and respond to both at once, we will be on the way to a fresh vision, a fresh mission.