Quotes about Art
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.
— Joseph Brodsky
People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
— Madeleine L'Engle
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There's nothing like drawing a thing to make you really see it.
— Margaret Atwood
The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.
— Pope John Paul II
It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
— Oscar Wilde
Art should never be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
Virtue runs before the muse, and defies her skill; she is rapt and doth refuse to wait a painter's will.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson