Quotes About Art

I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.

The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

Its not enough to just own a camera. Everyone owns a camera. To be a photographer you must understand, appreciate and harness the power you hold!

When your heart jumps every time your camera locks focus...You've become a photographer.

Turn those deep feelings and obsessions of your heart into captivating pieces of literature.

As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words.

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).

Music is a second language to my heart.

Reading and writing dangerous books lets me be who I can't be and say what I can't say in everyday life.

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.

Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter.

To paint is not to copy the object slavishly, it is to grasp a harmony among many relationships.

I see a movie as a way of learning about the world, about myself, and learning about my relationship with people and art.