Quotes on Art

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

If you have not linked yourself to true emptiness, you will never understand the art of peace.

Everything depends on the attitude of the artist toward his subject. It is essential.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Art is really people asking the eternal question, "What is it all about?"

For art to be reality, the whole sensuous being must be caught up in the experience.

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.

It's not what you see that is art. Art is the gap.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.

There is no must in art because art is free.

A picture is a poem without words

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

History is Philosophy teaching by example.

Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements.

To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program.' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.