Quotes about Art

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

The difficult pastoral art is to encourage people to grow in excellence and to live selflessly, at one and the same time to lose the self and find the self. It is paradoxical, but it is not impossible.

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

When we read more books, look at more pictures, listen to more music, than we can possibly absorb the result of such gluttony is not a cultured mind but a consuming one; what it reads, looks at, listens to, is immediately forgotten, leaving no more traces behind it than yesterday's newspaper.

Good poetry survives not when it is pretty or beautiful or nice but when it is true: accurate and honest.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I realised at the age of 16 that unless I read the gospels, I would never have access to Renaissance art, to the music of Bach or the novels of Dostoevsky. So in the evenings, when the other boys went to play basketball or chase girls - I had no chance in either - I found my comfort in Jesus.

Christians who enjoy and support art and culture, who make it a priority in their lives, and who reach out to those in the arts instead of reflexively pushing them away, can help bring the culture toward a renewed appreciation of goodness, truth, and beauty. And that is good for everyone.

If you never, or rarely, see your experience depicted in art or pop culture then you can begin to feel isolated or separate; Othered. So, representation is super important.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

As I've gotten older, my love for jazz has increased.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.