Quotes about Art
Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness.
— Mark Twain
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
— William Faulkner
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
— Clement of Alexandria
Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny.
— Pope John Paul II
I like to see films that come out with lower budgets because you're forced into using your imagination. You don't have everything at your fingertips. You have to create it from scratch.
— Heath Ledger
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the primary way in which we become what we see or hear.
— Eugene Peterson
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
— Khalil Gibran
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
— Hippocrates
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
— Martha Graham
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
— Euripides
The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.
— Carl Jung
The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.
— DH Lawrence