Quotes on Art

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from all human lips; -- not be represented on canvas or in marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.

In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness.