Quotes About Art

It's not the art, it's the heart. What [God] reads during our worship is the inner attitude. Worship is spiritual; it's organic; it's relational.

For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Art becomes a spiritual process depending upon the degree of commitment that you bring to it. Every experience becomes direct food for your art. Then your art teaches you about life.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Colors produce a spiritual vibration, the impression they create is important only as a step towards this vibration.

When I get intimate with my paintings, it's a real good spiritual thing to get off my chest. Same as playing the instruments is a great release.

I love Australia passionately. I love our landscape. It's influenced most of my work, really. Almost everything I've written is about the landscape. Trying to find, the sacred, the spiritual in it.

If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

Yoga is an art, a science and a philosophy. It touches the life of man at every level, physical, mental, and spiritual. It is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual and the sublime are suspect today, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Creativity is a fact of your spiritual body

Art is not the spiritual side of business.

I don't take drugs: I am drugs.

What is the spiritual purpose of the arts? It is to learn structure. Once an artist creates a true structure, then divine love can pour into it and make it a living thing of beauty.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

I don't love the postmodern statement: "You shouldn't be spiritual if you are the artist."

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.