Quotes about Art

When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

Beauty without expression tires.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Beauty is in the eye of the Creator.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

The connection between art and Christ is like the connection between sunlight and the sun. It is, in fact, the connection between Sonlight and the Son.

All metaphors limp.

All artists are mothers. To be an artist is to be a creator, whether of a symphony or a supper or a painting or a person. Motherhood is the primary art, the art of creating (procreating) people.