Quotes about Art

In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.

All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.

So generally—and this is not a complicated point, God knows—the arts frame our life for us so that we will experience it. Pay attention to it.

When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, "You know how it is; one tries to make one's Mummy just as nice as he can." When God became Man, He too, I believe, would make His Mother as nice as He could—and that would make her a perfect Mother.