All Quotes By Tag: Art

“I sincerely believe we are created by a Creator to be creative. This is part of His image we bear, this bringing forth of beauty, life, newness…It looks like art, it looks like music, it looks like community, it looks like splendor. That thing in you that wants to make something beautiful? It is holy.”

“Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life. ”

“So many hues in nature and yet nothing remained the same, every day, every season a work of genius, a free gift from the Artist of artists.”

“Sculptors feel that somebody else is using their hands, that they couldn’t possibly be doing this.”

“Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt”

“The public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities…. A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions–one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral. What they mean by these words seems to me to be this. When they say a work is grossly unintelligible, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is new; when they describe a work as grossly immoral, they mean that the artist has said or made a beautiful thing that is true.”

“Never Judge Another Person’s Journey!”

“There are two kinds of truth; The truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The fist of these is science and the second is art.”

“Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.”

“All works of nonfiction, or memoir, have to first and foremost be art before they can be true. They have to be artful first before they can be truthful… If you emphasize the truth-telling at the expense of art, nobody is going to be interested in it. And if you sacrifice truth in the name of art, you risk triviality. There’s a constant balance between those two.”

“I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn’t”

“Believe against all odds, for this devotion has created art, the devil and gods.”

“The truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.”

“All art is abstract, because art is an abstraction of the truth.”