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Quotes About Art

Peruse the Christian marketplace, and you will find a plethora of books, songs, and paintings that depict God as a loving Father.
~ David Platt
When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, 'God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!'
~ Dolly Parton
God made poor woman with no heart, But gave her skill, and tact, and art, And so she lives, and plays her part. We must not blame, but pity her.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In sanskrit they say: "Tat twam asi" - thou art that. You are God. The bubble of your awareness bursts and you're flooded with immortality.
~ Frederick Lenz
I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.
~ Helene Aylon
One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
~ Henry de Montherlant
Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?
~ Horace
I feel like, to me, art is a ladder to God, in my own opinion, you know. And so, for me, the more people that I can reach through many different artistic avenues, the better.
~ Jada Pinkett Smith
If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.
~ James Russell Lowell
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
~ Jenny Eclair
There's a lot of hate mail from readers. There's hate mail, threats, stalkers... I think that I'm bulletproof every week when I've turned something in. I think, I'm a god.
~ Jerry Saltz
A lot of ideas don't translate very well into art. To say, "Oh my god, the grass is green ..." You're going to end up with a big green painting.
~ John Baldessari
God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
~ Josef Albers
If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.
~ Kathe Koja
God is good but not safe, and the urge for safe art is often a worldly temptation away from goodness.
~ Kenneth Myers
gray hair is gods graffiti
~ Bill Cosby
God's creation is the greatest of all arts.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
~ Massimo Vignelli
Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.
~ Paul Cezanne
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
~ Hugh Newell Jacobsen
I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.
~ Jimmy Page
Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.
~ Henri Matisse
I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.
~ Helmut Newton