Quotes About Art

Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Art maybe the only space where an indvidual can be utterly free to question himself, as well as his relationship to his God

In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God's sight as Rembrandt or anyone else.

I was created by the all powerful God to fill the universe with my masterpieces.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

Not all musicians believe in god but they all believe in Bach

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated

The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

God, the king of artists, was clumsy.

I'm inviting the spirits into my photography. It's an act of God.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.

Creativity is a god who comes around only when he pleases, and it isn't very often. But when he does come around, he sits at my desk and folds his wings and I offer him whatever he wants.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

There is no God, and conversation is a dying art.

God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.