Quotes about Art

Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? ...people who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature—subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today…. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty.

We will make love an art and we will love like artists.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Love would never b a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with a light of faith, water of sincerity, and an art of passion.

Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Prayer is not a privilege for the pious, not the art of a chosen few. Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child. My friend, he wants to talk with you. Even now, as you read these words, he taps at the door. Open it. Welcome him in. Let the conversation begin.