Quotes About Art

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

Acting is a sort of pressure cooker that allows the fizz to come out the top. God knows what I'd be like if I didn't have that.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

God gave us music, so we play with our words.

Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

To believe, one must have lost God. To paint, one must have lost art.

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

Thank God for movie music. It preserves the rich vocabulary in classical music through challenging times.

Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

The god is the beautiful.

It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His.

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

Art can lead you to God. I think that's the purpose of everything. If it's not doing that, what's it doing? It's leading you the other way. It's certainly not leading you nowhere.

The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.

Of all musical instruments the human voice is the most beautiful, for it is made by God.

Making art, I try to just gently persist, instead of having freak-outs where I'm like, Oh, my god, I'll never draw again. You are going to draw again, so you might as well relax.