Quotes about Art
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
— Henri Matisse
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
— Erica Jong
I did best when I had least truth for my subjects.
— John Donne
The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.
— Thomas Merton
She painted because she loved to paint. She never exhibited. She had no career, no ambitions for her work except that it be good, and she didn't care what we thought of it.
— Michael Ignatieff
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
— Erica Jong
Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.
— Maya Angelou
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
— John Ortberg
I'm interested in storytelling. I love being an artist now and connecting through art.
— Nicole Kidman
I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction.
— Jon Gordon
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
— Moby