Quotes About Art

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

Dance is the purest expression of every emotion, earthly and spiritual

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul.

Be encouraged to be an encourager. It's a spiritual art that everyone can learn. And mostly you learn by practicing it.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual...

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

When you put things together, things that other people have thrown out, you're really bringing them to life – a spiritual life that surpasses the life for which they were originally created.

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.