Quotes on Art

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call it art, and bad art is still art in the same way that a bad emotion is still an emotion.

I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.

The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words…By means of art were are sometimes sent - dimly, briefly - revelations unattainable by reason.

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Unfortunately, the boards of art institutions tend to be populated with well-meaning supporters of the arts who often lack any business background or appetite for imposing appropriate discipline.

Bit by bit, putting it together... Piece by piece, only way to make a work of art. Every moment makes a contribution, Every little detail plays a part. Having just the vision's no solution, Everything depends on execution, Putting it together, that's what counts.

Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.